Rarely does a logline predict a viewer's response as accurately as in Glendyn Ivin's Penguin Bloom. If the following summary sounds to you like a good way to spend an hour and a half —nursing a rescued bird helps a newly paralyzed mother move past self-pity and rejoin her happy family — you'll be moved.
If that doesn't sound enticing, nothing about the movie (which is based on a true story) will change your mind. Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln bring dignity and seriousness to what might've been a painfully sappy tale of rebirth, and their star power offers the Aussie import's main hope of connection with audiences.
But this is hardly the complex material cinephiles hope for at festivals, whether they attend them remotely or in person. Watts.
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