Julia Louis-Dreyfus processes the imminent death of her daughter with the help of a talking parrot in the trailer for A24’s Tuesday.
Tuesday stars Louis-Dreyfus as Zora, a mother who takes care of her terminally ill daughter, Tuesday. When a talking, size-altering parrot — known simply as “Death” — arrives in their lives, he prepares Tuesday for her eventual demise and helps Zora understand, process, and accept her daughter’s fate.
Written and directed by Daina O. Pusić in her directorial debut, Tuesday premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival last fall. The dramatic appearance marks Louis-Dreyfus’ second starring role in an A24-distributed film, after her lauded turn in Nicole Holofcener’s 2023 movie, You Hurt My Feelings.
Rounding out Tuesday’s cast are Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, and Arinzé Kene, who voices Death. Tuesday is a co-production between A24, the BFI, and BBC Film. A release date is unconfirmed, but...
Tuesday stars Louis-Dreyfus as Zora, a mother who takes care of her terminally ill daughter, Tuesday. When a talking, size-altering parrot — known simply as “Death” — arrives in their lives, he prepares Tuesday for her eventual demise and helps Zora understand, process, and accept her daughter’s fate.
Written and directed by Daina O. Pusić in her directorial debut, Tuesday premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival last fall. The dramatic appearance marks Louis-Dreyfus’ second starring role in an A24-distributed film, after her lauded turn in Nicole Holofcener’s 2023 movie, You Hurt My Feelings.
Rounding out Tuesday’s cast are Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, and Arinzé Kene, who voices Death. Tuesday is a co-production between A24, the BFI, and BBC Film. A release date is unconfirmed, but...
- 1/25/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Film News
"Every life ends..." A24 has unveiled an official trailer for an intriguing film titled Tuesday, marking the feature directorial debut of Croatian filmmaker Daina Oniunas-Pusic (aka Daina O. Pusić). This premiered at last year's Telluride Film Festival, but it hasn't shown up many other places since then. This features a rather unique high concept: a mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird (who appears as a big parrot). It's a story about a woman who is sick and dying, and a mother who doesn't want to let her daughter go, learning to accept the reality of death thanks to this talking bird (as Death) helping her though it. All of this sounds quite wild. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Zora, Lola Petticrew as Tuesday, Leah Harvey, Ellie James, and Arinzé Kene as the voice of Death. This actually doesn't seem that weird,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
An early scene in the small-scale and adventurous Tuesday reveals that Zora, the single mom played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, knows how to bargain. That’s good, because soon she’ll be bargaining with Death. And it’s especially good to see this gifted actor channel her brilliant knack for comic neurosis into dark, weird territory that’s steeped in grief and its seven stages.
Daina O. Pusić, a London-based writer-director who hails from Croatia, takes a courageous leap into allegory and performance-based animation with her first feature-length film. Tuesday, named for Zora’s dying teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew), is a straightforward, uncluttered fusion of mother-child drama and magic realism. In what is essentially a three-hander, Death is a world-weary macaw who can shrink and grow effortlessly, an outstanding VFX creation voiced with engaging seriousness and heart by Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman).
With a nod to the indelible modern classic Wings of Desire,...
Daina O. Pusić, a London-based writer-director who hails from Croatia, takes a courageous leap into allegory and performance-based animation with her first feature-length film. Tuesday, named for Zora’s dying teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew), is a straightforward, uncluttered fusion of mother-child drama and magic realism. In what is essentially a three-hander, Death is a world-weary macaw who can shrink and grow effortlessly, an outstanding VFX creation voiced with engaging seriousness and heart by Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman).
With a nod to the indelible modern classic Wings of Desire,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tuesday is a fairy tale with some very real-world consequences.
The latest A24 collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, after her superb comedy You Hurt My Feelings premiered at Sundance early in 2023, has just had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, and for Louis-Dreyfus admirers it just may be a revelation. The star, who has won a boatload of Emmys for comedy including a historic achievement for Lead Actress in three separate comedy series and who was also excellent in the Kenya Barris comedy You People this spring, shows she is just as talented tackling a highly emotional and unusual dramatic role.
Tuesday also marks a stunning writing and directorial feature debut for Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, who in wanting to make a movie dealing with loss and death has turned it all into a bit of a fairy tale involving a macaw who it turns out is the face of death.
The latest A24 collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, after her superb comedy You Hurt My Feelings premiered at Sundance early in 2023, has just had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, and for Louis-Dreyfus admirers it just may be a revelation. The star, who has won a boatload of Emmys for comedy including a historic achievement for Lead Actress in three separate comedy series and who was also excellent in the Kenya Barris comedy You People this spring, shows she is just as talented tackling a highly emotional and unusual dramatic role.
Tuesday also marks a stunning writing and directorial feature debut for Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, who in wanting to make a movie dealing with loss and death has turned it all into a bit of a fairy tale involving a macaw who it turns out is the face of death.
- 9/4/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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