4/19/2023 0 Comments Penguin bloom![]() “Peng” needs a mother, and Sam needs to be able to care for someone else. ![]() Sam, scared of everything and no longer sure of herself, resists she calls the young charge “bird” when everyone else takes to calling her “Penguin.” (Penguin is allegedly portrayed by eight different magpies.) The Blooms are kind, giving folks - and kudos to Ivin and his young stars, including Felix Cameron and Abe Clifford-Barr as Noah’s brothers, for offering well-rounded kids who feel very real - and they bring the chick into their home. It’s Noah who finds the abandoned baby magpie, chirping away on a local beach, totally alone and presumably quite freaked out about the whole thing. “It’s like Mum was stolen from us,” Noah remarks at one point, a heartbreakingly astute observation from a wise kid.Īnd then there’s Penguin. After a freak accident on a Thai holiday (flashbacks to Watts’ turn in “The Impossible” are hard to shake), Sam is left in a wheelchair, a shell of her former self that whinges between anger (enter requisite “angry destruction” scene) and helplessness. Narrated by sensitive tween Noah (Murray-Johnston), “Penguin Bloom” follows the story of the Bloom family, a happy and exceedingly athletic Aussie tribe, seemingly held together by its only female member, beloved mother Sam (Watts). Based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive, Ivin’s latest feature Nearly a decade later, it’s time for another: Give an Oscar for the bird(s) that star in Glendyn Ivin’s dramatic real-life story, “ Penguin Bloom.” That’s not to diminish the work of the human actors - including a stirring Naomi Watts and a breakout performance by young actor Griffin Murray-Johnston - but there’s a reason why this gentle Aussie drama is named after its sole winged character. It wasn’t an ask without precedent (Rin Tin Tin was in the race for the very first Best Actor award, and arguably won the accolade), but it was certainly the most public awards campaign for a non-human actor. VanAirsdale suggested - not entirely facetiously - that the dog who played Uggie in the then-Oscar contender “The Artist” be considered for his own Academy Award. ![]()
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