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âPenguin Bloomâ Review: Relearning to Fly
In this sentimental Netflix film, Naomi Watts plays a woman who, after a life-changing accident, finds inspiration in a magpie.
Naomi Watts in “Penguin Bloom.”Credit.Cameron Bloom/Netflix
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Anyone paying a smidge of attention to the early scenes of âPenguin Bloomâ should be able to write the ending â and most of what precedes it â long before it arrives. Yet predictability isnât the only problem with this based-on-true-life drama, one that underscores every sentiment and tugs every heartstring with wincing insistence.
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Premium Content  It is the amazing feel-good Australian story that began as a book, has now become a movie - and is about to be a unique photography exhibition. Penguin Bloom is the story of a magpie that befriended an Aussie family hit by tragedy when mum Sam suffered a severe spinal injury after a fall on holiday in Thailand. The film, starring Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom, will be released nationally on January 21. On the same day a photographic exhibition of amazing behind-the-scenes pictures taken by the director Glendyn Ivin and by Sam s husband Cameron will open at Westfield Sydney.