EO

Name: EO
Genre: Drama
Released: November 18, 2022
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Saverio Fabbri

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Janus Films | Release Date: November 18, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Saverio Fabbri, Tomasz Organek

Summary: 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, 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.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Empire Alex Godfrey

Jan 30, 2023

A beguiling and often brutal look at the life of a donkey, this hijacks your heart, your mind, your ears and your eyes from start to finish. Read full review

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C.J. Prince

Nov 27, 2022

It’s impossible to guess where things will end up from one second to the next, which may sound daunting, but in the assured hands of Skolimowski and his crew, EO is downright exhilarating. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Feb 3, 2023

This is a profoundly serious film, one concerned about our disregard for animals and our disintegrating ecosystems, but it is also restlessly alive. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 26, 2022

EO is a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy, wide eyes of a donkey whom we come to adore. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Feb 18, 2023

Bizarre, beautiful, moving and playful, this is an oddity to cherish, with depths that only reveal themselves – entirely aptly – on the hoof. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Feb 2, 2023

EO is at once a cinematic curiosity, a compelling drama and a harrowing portrait of cruel whimsy. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 25, 2022

I’m not sure this is my favourite Skolimowski film, but it is engaging in many ways: beautifully photographed, sentimental and surreal in equal measure; and also stubborn – as stubborn as its hero – in its symbolism and stark pessimism. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 18, 2023

How do animals perceive us? There is a fair amount of argument to be made about it and it will just be guesswork for the most part.

Now how is it that we believe that animals see us through a look made by the human being. That's actually more terrifying because we admit our cruelty and ourHow do animals perceive us? There is a fair amount of argument to be made about it and it will just be guesswork for the most part.

Now how is it that we believe that animals see us through a look made by the human being.
That's actually more terrifying because we admit our cruelty and our brutality, we recognize it as part of our nature and we do nothing to change it

As with Andrea Arnold's Cow, the odyssey seems to be a kind of acknowledgment of how we interact with these creatures, the existence we provide to them and how, although evolution supposedly separates us as those on the top of the chain, we are still completely linked to them.

EO definitely did not enter my 2022 top best and frankly I wasn't expecting it even with all the hype the film carried, however I liked it a lot, which in the end is more than good.… Expand

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bertobellamy

Mar 11, 2023

'EO' is a poetic essay on cruelty and innocence. The film is fought from any plot to focus all the attention on the animal's trip. Some vignettes work better than others, but the feeling that images project is unquestionable.

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mikesgold2K

May 15, 2023

IO świat poznaje, czasem z tej lepszej strony a czasem gorszej. Dla scen osiołka na meczu a potem bawiącego się w gospodzie warto zobaczyć

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