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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Quote: The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 war drama film directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Diane Ackerman
_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: The Zookeeper's Wife
A nice picture. "Nice" here is both a compliment and perhaps a bit of a jab. Very Miramax circa the late 1990s, for better or worse. This film will drive people who hate safe, sentimental Holocaust stories up the wall, and there are a few groan-inducing moments: a marital spat is given too much weight right after the depiction of Jewish children being loaded into a camp-bound train, and there is a highly contrived third-act beat involving the unseen firing of a gun. But it is a handsomely mounted period piece, and Jessica Chastain delivers another elegant and passionate performance, and the story's zoo milieu is novel.
I was quite riveted by Shira Haas' hard-edged, nearly silent performance as an adolescent rape victim. Her character's plight and spiritual recovery is arguably the film's most poignant element; unfortunately the screenplay or final cut mostly forgets her in the home stretch, which is when it also becomes a tad whiplash-inducing in its condensing of time (Chastain is not pregnant. Chastain is pregnant! she is going into labor! ...within around two minutes).
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_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36923
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Re: The Zookeeper's Wife
This was decent adaptation of the book but it adds nothing more to its screen value. It diffuses tension at key moments and while it wants the audience to feel the tragedy there is nothing on display to feel that. Chastain does great, Bruhl is great in a few scenese but rest of the cast is just passable.
5/10
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Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:41 am |
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Re: The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife treads well trod ground, but at least director Niki Caro knows how to pull those heartstrings. I'm a Jessica Chastain fan, and she's fine here, but clearly out of her depth. This movie would have been much better with a European actress, less distracting. A better screenwriter to tighten up the slack script would also have been welcome. *C+*
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Tue May 02, 2017 1:44 pm |
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thompsoncory
Rachel McAdams Fan
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:13 am Posts: 14544 Location: LA / NYC
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Re: The Zookeeper's Wife
It's enjoyable and Jessica Chastain gives a great performance, but I'd be lying if I said that it really did anything to differentiate itself from your standard Holocaust drama. It's fairly by-the-numbers. B-
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Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:14 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20445 Location: Where they shot Knock at the Cabin
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Re: The Zookeeper's Wife
It was pretty to look at and had cute animals, but otherwise it was dull.
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