Penguin Bloom, the healing bird

An unlikely playing partner.

In the Netflix movie

, Naomi Watts gives the answer to… a magpie!

Based on a true story, this Australian family film by Glendyn Ivin on disability is of rare tenderness and frankness without pathos or simplistic happy ending.

Following a fall on vacation, Sam, a nurse and mother passionate about surfing, loses the use of her legs.

The return to the house perched on a hill in Sidney which dominates these beaches which Sam (Naomi Watts in a role similar to that of

) can no longer walk is all the more cruel.

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To this tattered life is added a suffering and rebellious body.

Despite the support of her husband (Andrew Lincoln,

) and their three boys, Sam sinks into depression until the day a baby magpie fallen from the nest is taken in by one of her children.

A collusion is established between the bird in distress and the tried and tested mother.

The price of resilience

Advised by the real Sam who allowed them to film at home, Naomi Watts captures the rage, anger, limited mobility of her heroine to whom a transfer between her wheelchair and her bed requires a colossal effort and sometimes results in a fall. On the ground.

Antithesis of the painful

where Alexandra Lamy was prancing around,

shows the price of resilience.

This mischievous bird, which breaks trinkets and gets stuck in jars of honey, allows Blooms to relearn how to communicate, helps them no longer repress their regrets, their unspoken and their guilt.

Sam's reconstruction to tame this new normal is illustrated by innocuous gestures and can only speak to us as the coronavirus epidemic forces us to adapt and to mourn our habits.