The Zookeepers Wife is based off of a true story and stars Jessica Chastain as Antonia the wife of a Polish Zookeeper in Warsaw when the Nazis invade in 1939 and during the war the Germans round up the Polish Jews into Ghettos and beat them and kill them but Antonia and her husband can no longer stand by as this continues to go on.
The Zookeepers Wife is quite good and that mainly comes down to the story being told here a true life story of a real person who just couldn't sit by and let what was happening to her fellow countrymen as the Germans were occupying their home and it makes for several rather tense sequences where I thought for sure they were going to get caught though happily they did not, Daniel Bruhl an underrated actor is also quite good as a German Officer who hangs around the Zoo like a bad smell.
But this movie is clearly Chastain's and she is very good here and watching her in this movie I was reminded of how good an actress she can be when she has a role to really sink her teeth into and though her Polish accent was a little distracting at times she holds the screen very nicely it's a shame to see her wasted in films like Interstellar, Huntsman: Winters War or the Martian where she had so little to do hopefully in the future she will get meatier roles as she more than deserves them.
And so that was the Zookeepers Wife a quite good true story film that appealed to me and my love of World War 2 History on film and has a great performance by Chastain worth a watch when it comes out on disc, 3 out of 5.
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