EO

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

Jerzy Skolimowski (1938) is a Polish filmmaker, scriptwriter, actor, poet and painter. He graduated in Ethnography from Warsaw University in 1959 and attended the prestigious Polish Film School in Lódz. Together with Roman Polanski, he wrote the screenplay for Polanski’s film Knife in the Water (1962). Skolimowski has directed more than 20 films inside and outside Poland since his debut The Menacing Eye (1960). He won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his film Le départ (1967). For The Shout (1978), he was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes. Skolimowski has twice won the Venice Special Jury Prize - for The Lightship (1985) and for Essential Killing (2010). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. He was a guest of Belgrade International Film Festival FEST at the 37th festival in Belgrade in 2009.

Reveiws:

A damning polemic on our relationship to other species as seen through the dewy, wide eyes of a donkey whom we come to adore.

Peter Debruge, Variety

 

EO takes a simple premise to unexpected places that are sometimes surreal, sometimes operatic, and in the film’s stylistic dynamism, sometimes downright Kubrickian.

Jonathan Romney, Screendaily

 

It captures the beauty of the world and the cruelty of humankind (...) The director is still an assured and audacious filmmaker.

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post