In one of the most astonishing sequences in “EO,” a rapturous hymn to the natural world from the 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, a wandering donkey gets lost in a forest primeval.

In one of the most astonishing sequences in “EO,” a rapturous hymn to the natural world from the 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, a wandering donkey gets lost in a forest primeval.

“EO” was inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 drama “Au Hasard Balthazar,” about the life and tribulations of a donkey and the only film that Skolimowski says has made him weep.

Jerzy Skolimowski's thrillingly imaginative new film, EO, follows a former circus donkey on a journey across modern Europe. It's a strange, haunting epic that couldn't feel more of our moment.

But “EO” doesn’t sit back and observe its protagonist — instead, Skolimowski uses drones, effects and a jarring sound design to put viewers in the donkey’s head. He spoke to TheWrap ...

Gorgeously filmed, experimental in style, and incredibly humanistic, "EO," recounts the experiences of the titular donkey — frequently from the animal's point of view. The film is Polish ...

Eo’s fate is both shocking and unsurprising, but the sadness of the donkey’s saga is at least partly assuaged by the rapturous empathy with which it’s told. Unrated. At the AFI Silver Theatre.

Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski didn’t always have a donkey in mind when he set out to make the film that would eventually become EO, his acclaimed Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama that is now ...

EO (now on the Criterion Channel and streaming on VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) consists of the many adventures of a donkey, from his point of view.How exactly a donkey sees the world will ...

Even for a movie told from the point of view of a donkey, “Eo” has an idiosyncratic look. Poland’s Best International Feature nominee at the Academy Awards — and one of IndieWire’s top ...

He’s also a donkey. EO is an astonishment and so too is this wild, boldly expressionistic movie that conveys the life of its largely silent protagonist with a bare minimum of dialogue.

“EO” isn’t entirely from the donkey’s perspective, and the sequences that aren’t subjectively told through his eyes are where the film begins to struggle. As EO journeys across Europe, he comes across ...