Exclusively available at FILMO from April 21st, the painted bird has been a hit at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Learn all about this uplifting, powerful, and necessary war drama with Stellan Skarsgდrd and Harvey Keitel.
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After his mother’s death, a young boy accidentally burns down his house and finds himself wandering around to find a house to meet him. Each house in which he will stay will be a scene of special violence, and not far from there the threat of World War II is gradually approaching …
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Before creating emotions – this is the least we can say – the Painted Bird filled many libraries during its official selection for the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Written by Jerzy Kosinski and published in 1965, L’Oiseau motley got a new skin almost 65 years later, thanks to Czech director Vaclav Marhul. This is not the first time Jerzy Kosinski’s work has been adapted for cinema, as we were able to discover another of his classics, Mr. Chance, with Peter Sellers and Shirley McLain, on the big screen in 1979.
The real challenge is taken by the “Drawn Bird that Marries” narrative, the initiator of the war drama, the film director offers a spectacular cinematic experience that often echoes the classic requiem for the massacre in terms of its subject matter and its treatment. With its sometimes crude, often shocking black-and-white images of shocking images, the film unfolds with rare poetry, and this, despite the violence of his words, clearly echoes the tragic news of Ukraine.
Focused on the odyssey of this little boy, surrounded by increasingly vivid and pervasive violence, the feature film is shot with the talent of the young Peter Kotlar (Joska). He also relies on well-known faces for moviegoers like Stellan Skarsgდიrd or Harvey Keitel.
For 3 hours, rich in brilliant staging and symbolic and astonishing images, the film manages to establish itself and indelibly imprint it in our memory. No wonder he received, by the way, the UNICEF Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019 and at least 7 Czech Lions (including Best Picture and Best Director).
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