‘Tuesday’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes on Death Itself – as a Terrifying 10-Foot Macaw – in Eccentric A24 Offering
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic Death takes the most unexpected of forms in “Tuesday,” a sui generis debut from Croatian director Daina O.
Pusić. Her strikingly original, if occasionally counterintuitive film brings the central idea of Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” into the modern era — trying to stall Death, if only for a matter of hours — anchored by a committed performance from a curiously miscast Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
According to Pusić’s singular imagination, Death isn’t a scythe-wielding skeleton, nor a winged figure in a pitch-black plague cloak.
Rather, it appears as a ruddy-colored, computer-generated macaw with a rumbling Darth Vader-esque bass (performed by Arinzé Kene), his words low like glaciers calving, and a syntax like Jabba the Hutt.
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