EO

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski

2022 / 86min / DCP

One of the most radically experimental narrative films of last year came courtesy of legendary Polish director Skolimowski who, well into his eighties, is taking risks most emerging young filmmakers wouldn’t dream of. A road movie that looks at contemporary Poland through the eyes of a wandering donkey (as well as several other astonishing coup de cinéma perspectives), EO takes some inspiration from Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, but where Bresson avoids psychological interiority, Skolimowski shows a wide variety of human folly as it might appear to a much-persecuted animal, in the process creating one of his most memorable protagonists.