Skolimowski often shoots the film from EO's point of view, offering viewers only a limited understanding of the backstory of the humans, intensifying our connection to the donkey.

Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a winding misadventure about a sweet-tempered donkey, inarguably qualifies as an animal’s-eye view of all that’s warm and cruel, comical and arbitrary about human nature. And ...

Charles Melton got to run through the Criterion Closet. Picks included Mikey and Nicky, Cure, Safe, and 2022’s Eo. Melton said he felt like the donkey in that movie. Which, if you’ve seen Eo ...

“EO’s” inspiration is obvious. In Robert Bresson’s 1966 “Au Hasard Balthazar,” two kids christened a newborn donkey in the film’s opening minutes. By the end, when Balthazar sighed ...

The resulting film, "EO," is the story of a circus donkey who is taken from his owner and begins a long, spiritual journey through the modern Polish and Italian countrysides, encountering humans ...