![]() ![]() But as refreshing as it is to see a woman in an Oskar Schindler-type role get her big movie due, the trappings of handsome blandness, tinny storytelling and thumbnail-sketch war terror prove too much for this story of a beauty fighting beastliness. ![]() “Whale Rider” director Niki Caro’s studiously rendered period epic puts a thickly accented Jessica Chastain front and center as Antonina Żabińska, since Diane Ackerman’s nonfiction book culled its history (and title) from access to Antonina’s diaries. In “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” a regrettable sense of the latter overtakes the former in telling of the Żabińskis, real-life married Polish animal caretakers who saved hundreds of Jews during their country’s Nazi occupation. Some tales are remarkable yet true, while others are meaningful yet dull.
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