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Now She Is Become Death

14 Jun
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Tuesday

If you’ve ever thought to yourself: Julia Louis-Dreyfus should make a movie about death, then have I got a film for you.

In Tuesday, the erstwhile Elaine Benes plays Zora, a single mother whose teenage daughter, Tuesday (Lola Petticrew), is on the verge of dying of a terminal illness. When Death arrives in the form of a size-shifting, talking macaw (yes, really), Zora begrudgingly learns to let go and accept her daughter’s fate — but not before going on an emotional journey the likes of which I couldn’t spoil even if I wanted to.

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