The title role is played by Jessica Chastain she is Antonina Zabinski, on whose memoirs, notes and diaries the book was based. In a production based on a nonfiction book by Diane Ackerman, a brilliantly specific story has been reduced to conventional drama and synthetic heroics. The moment is memorable but the film is not, despite the richness of its theme-a zookeeper and his wife protecting their remaining animals while saving the lives of hundreds of Warsaw’s Jews. “Wild animals are loose!” a loudspeaker blares wild, yes, though no more so than the Nazi beasts to come. Some animals perish in their cages, others flee in terror onto the streets. ![]() ![]() In “The Zookeeper’s Wife” it’s the Luftwaffe’s bombing of the Warsaw zoo in September 1939, when Hitler’s forces have just invaded Poland. ![]() A single sequence can define the essence of a movie, or hint at what the movie might have been.
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