The Croatian writer-director fashions a timeless, visually arresting fable from a conceit pitched somewhere between Rudyard Kipling and Angela Carter
In keeping with the house-sauce magic realism of Love Lies Bleeding and I Saw the TV Glow, Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s debut feature is easily pegged as a contemporary A24 joint.
Death is introduced as a shape-shifting macaw who appears during the last seconds of mortality. He is variously begged, embraced and spat upon. When the feathered grim reaper comes for Tuesday, she struggles to catch her breath and tells him a joke about penguins. The Movie Quiz: Which has not been the Irish submission for best international feature at the Oscars?Borderlands review: Cate Blanchett plays an intergalactic bounty hunter in Eli Roth’s straight-up, uncomplicated pulp
. The pacing can be slow, but tremendous performances from Louis-Dreyfus, Petticrew and Kene offset the longueurs. Personifications of death have stalked cinema in the guise of Frederic March , Jessica Lange and Brad Pitt , but he has seldom squawked so appealingly.
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