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Jul 17, 2020 · Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel The Painted Bird was controversial in many respects. At first, the controversy centered on the content, an unrelenting story of the sufferings of a young boy wandering the blasted landscape of World-War-II-riven Central Europe.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Brutally uncompromising in its portrayal of Nazi Germany, The Painted Bird is a difficult watch that justifies its stark horror with searing impact. Read Critics Reviews
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- Petr Kotlár
- Václav Marhoul
- Drama
Jul 16, 2020 · “The Painted Bird” falls deeply in the shadow of the 1985 Soviet classic “Come and See,” another boy’s-eye chronicle of the war’s terrors. But “The Painted Bird” is less a sensory ...
- Václav Marhoul
Sep 3, 2019 · ‘The Painted Bird’: Film Review. Jerzy Kosinski’s horrific novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the close of World War II is sensitively adapted for the screen in...
Jul 17, 2020 · The Painted Bird, Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul’s stark new World War II drama, inspired walkouts when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Watching the film, one understands...
- K. Austin Collins
Jul 15, 2020 · ‘The Painted Bird’ Review: A Gruesome Three-Hour Parade of Inhumanity. Václav Marhoul's black-and-white film is an epic portrait of inhumanity in the tradition of "Come and See" and...
Sep 13, 2020 · Based on a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosinski, a Polish-American writer, The Painted Bird is a story of encounters in the tradition of Homer’s The Odyssey, or Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn....