EO begins in a circus ring, where the film's titular donkey performs a captivating performance with his devoted human caretaker. As the scene moves forward — flourished with ravishing red gel filters ...

The animal, reared in a circus, enters into a forest and a world of wild animals. For the first and only time in the movie, he is free. EO, the donkey who shares a name with the film, sprints from the ...

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 ...

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. Night ...

Husband-and-wife writing and producing partners Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska had the Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles crowd doubled over in laughter with their charming back and forth ...

A prime year for cinematic donkeys: That’s one way to remember 2022. “Prime” does not mean “kind.” Jenny, the wee miniature companion of Colin Farrell’s character in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” ...

Scott Simon talks to Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski about his new film "EO", the story of a donkey once it leaves the circus. 'EO' is a Polish film about a donkey that leaves the circus SCOTT ...

Polish film legend Jerzy Skolimowski offers his take on Robert Bresson's classic, using a donkey to indict human mistreatment of animals and nature. Give an animal a name, and it becomes a lot more ...

Like a mistreated starlet, nature often gets a bum deal in the movies. When the light is good, you can always just turn the camera on it and make a pretty picture. But it takes a great deal of ...

DONKEYS TEND not to play prominent roles during Oscar season. This year, however, is proving an exception: a diminutive donkey named Jenny steals several scenes in Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of ...

Scott Simon talks to Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski about his new film "EO", the story of a donkey once it leaves the circus. "EO," Jerzy Skolimowski's new film, opens on a pair of ...

"EO," Jerzy Skolimowski's new film, opens on a pair of unforgettable eyes. They're the eyes of a donkey born in a Polish circus that closes, which sends the donkey onto a trail of decidedly ...