2021 · drama · music
The Starling
Directed by Theodore Melfi1h 43m2021
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
Our read: The Starling (2021) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
Watching The Starling tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How The Starling feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want grief comedy with a stubborn bird and a marriage slowly healing.”
Skip it tonight — Infant loss and suicide themes are too raw for a supposedly light movie.
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