Directed by vet Polish filmmaker, Jerzy Skolimowski, the film is inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 classic film, Au Hasard Balthazar.
It’s the bittersweet tale of a little circus donkey called EO — named for the sounds he makes — who sets off on a strange, phantasmagoric, adventure that assumes the shape of a road movie.
Along the way, he encounters other animals but, more consequently, kind and cruel people whose treatment of him reflects the denatured world that we have made.
Skolimowski, who’s 84, has made one of the rare movies that speak to life’s most essential questions.
He’s done so with the vision and fearless courage of a genius who seems as if he’s just getting started.
The film premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, where it won the Jury Prize, tying with The Eight Mountains.
