The Zookeeper’s Wife is deeply emotional and visceral, but fails to reach the bar set by better examples of the genre.
The Zookeeper’s Wife does not have the scope of a Schindler’s List or The Pianist.
Set in the summer of 1939 Warsaw, Antonina (Chastain) and Jan (Heldenbergh) Zabinski run a delightful zoo at the center of the city.
Adapted for the screen by acclaimed director Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country), the film has tour-de-force performances from Jessica Chastain and Belgian actor Johan Heldenbergh.