Tuesday.

A young woman with a terminal disease is about to die

One day death in the form of a shape shifting parrot comes into her room.

So begins the intriguing tale by first time director Daina O. Pusić about death and humanities inability to comprehend and understand this universal phenomenon. Deaths appearance does not particularly upset or perturb Tuesday affectingly played byLola Petticrew. Her only request is that death delay its mission until Zora, her mother played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns from work. 

Her mothers reaction on seeing death and realizing what its presence means for her daughter beginning a mission to try and forestall its inevitable actions. Trying to kill the bird by various means she ends up swallowing the charred remains of the creature. By doing so forestalling its duties reports begin to come in of people and animals not dying from their injuries and roaming the countryside in zombie like states. Swallowing the bird has its own disastrous effects on Zora until her daughter makes her realize her mistake intruding to put off the inevitable.  In doing so she regurgitates the bird allowing it to complete its duties. After her daughters death she becomes demoralized. The bird on a revisit to ‘see how she is doing’ , she asks the bird to continue its mission with her, hoping for an afterlife where she can reunite with her daughter. The bird refuses, saying that the afterlife is a legacy in other peoples memories. How Zora lives her remaining days is her daughters afterlife. On pondering this is is reminded of a conversation she had with her daughter in her final day promising she would continue on trying to live her best life  in her memory. This is a strange and affecting film that with great humanity tackles a subject that is rarely visited with such style.  499.5 stars