EO (Poland/Italy: Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)

 EO (Poland/Italy: Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022: 88 mins)

Balaga, Marta. "EO." Cineuropa (May 20, 2022) ["Among the films devoted entirely to animal protagonists, EO still sticks out a little. The veteran Polish director’s take on the ever-changing fortunes (and whereabouts) of one donkey is weird and occasionally hilarious. There is something about it that feels very young, film school-y even, but it’s quite inspiring that instead of delivering safer fare, Skolimowski still feels like playing."]

Dargis, Manohla. "‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures." New York Times (November 17, 2022) ["The titular character of this fantastic adventure is no Disneyfied, cutesy creature. The director Jerzy Skolimowski emphasizes his animality and un-knowableness."]

Hodsdon, Bruce. "Great Directors: Jerzy Skolimowski." Sense of Cinema #27 (July 2003)

Hudson, David. "Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO." Current (May 23, 2022)

Kasman, Daniel. "The Donkey’s Eyes: Jerzy Skolimowski Discusses EO." Notebook (November 18, 2022)

Pinkerton, Nick and Sean Price Williams. "An interview with Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska on their new film EO."   Metrograph (2022) ["Between films, Jerzy Skolimowski paints. Or is it between paintings, he films. Mr. Skolimowski claims the two artforms, for him, do not intersect. In his brain these activities have no collision. Coincidently, many of his paintings are roughly the size of a movie theater screen. And coincidently, his newest film, EO roughly resembles some of his paintings. One painting from 1999, titled Agonia, features a vivid red that one finds all over the new film. A red that saturates the haunting love story Deep End, from 1970. A red that is often found in promotional materials for many of Mr. Skolimowski’s films. It’s almost as though he has the patent on the color."]

Shields, Randy. "EO: Bearing witness in the hell of speciesism." Monthly Review (December 13, 2022)

Skolimowski, Jerzy. "On EO." Film Comment Podcast (October 14, 2022) ["In his Cannes 2022 dispatch, Jonathan Romney wrote “Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO is a flamboyant, visionary work: its execution—including drone shots set to blazing red filters—and wayward, fragmented narrative showed an energy shared by that little else at the festival. Corny but true: the wildest, youngest film in the lineup was made by an 84-year-old director up for anything.” With EO making its U.S. premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival, we sat down with Skolimowski over Zoom to discuss his radical reimagining of Bresson, which follows a pure-hearted donkey set adrift in a cruel world. Though the filmmaker—known for classics like Walkover, Deep End, Moonlighting, and The Shout, among others—wasn’t able to attend this year’s festival in person, he was happy to field our many questions about his latest, a powerfully empathetic work of striking beauty and visual imagination."]

Taubin, Amy. "Hit the Road, Jack: Jerzy Skolimowski discusses his donkey odyssey." ArtForum (November 23, 2022)