Based on Jerzy Kosinski’s novel and directed by Václav Marhoul, is a 169 minute epic that centers on a young boy’s (Petr Kotlár) attempts to survive during the waning days of World War II. The black and white picture, shot on 35mm, is a tough picture to watch, as the boy suffers his share of [...]
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- 7/19/2020
- by Greg Srisavasdi
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Although The Painted Bird is only director Vaclav Marhoul’s third film (his previous works include Smart Phillip [2003] and Tobruk [2008]), it is, in short, an epic masterpiece of cinematic accomplishment.
In an effort to spare their child the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish couple send their son Joska (Petr Kotlár) to live out the war in safety with a relative somewhere in the Eastern European countryside. But, when the child’s guardian unexpectedly dies, the now homeless boy is forced take to the open road and endure a hostile world now governed by hate, fear, and violence. Struggling for survival, he journeys through a world besot by locals and villagers driven by prejudice, superstition, and their own rules. But, when the war ends, his fight for survival may just become one for his soul as well as his life.
Based on Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Marhoul’s script is...
In an effort to spare their child the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish couple send their son Joska (Petr Kotlár) to live out the war in safety with a relative somewhere in the Eastern European countryside. But, when the child’s guardian unexpectedly dies, the now homeless boy is forced take to the open road and endure a hostile world now governed by hate, fear, and violence. Struggling for survival, he journeys through a world besot by locals and villagers driven by prejudice, superstition, and their own rules. But, when the war ends, his fight for survival may just become one for his soul as well as his life.
Based on Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Marhoul’s script is...
- 7/17/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Graphic depictions of traumatic violence (eye-gouging with a spoon) and sexual depravity (don’t ask) had a good percentage of the audience sprinting for the exits when The Painted Bird premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Now available on demand, this WWII drama may have you running for cover in the privacy of your own home. In adapting Polish author Jerzy Kosiński’s bestseller, Czech writer-director Václav Marhoul spares nothing in showing the atrocities witnessed by a lost, abused and abandoned Jewish boy named Joska (Petr Kotlár), as...
- 7/15/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
The Painted Bird IFC Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Vàclav Marhoul Screenwriter: Vàclav Marhoul, from the novel by Jerzy Kosinski Cast: Petr Kotlár Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands, Udo Kier, Lech Dyblik Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/26/20 Opens: July 17, 2020 In […]
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- 7/12/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Czech director Vaclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosinsky’s controversial novel The Painted Bird is one of 10 films that was recently shortlisted for the International Feature Oscar. The film took more than a decade to bring to the screen and debuted in competition in Venice where it won the Cinema for Unicef Award. IFC picked up U.S. rights for The Painted Bird out of its Tiff premiere and will open the movie next year.
An evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II, the story follows the journey of ‘The Boy,’ who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, he suffers extraordinary brutality meted out by ignorant, superstitious peasants and witnesses the terrifying violence of the ruthless soldiers.
An evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II, the story follows the journey of ‘The Boy,’ who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, he suffers extraordinary brutality meted out by ignorant, superstitious peasants and witnesses the terrifying violence of the ruthless soldiers.
- 12/31/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Disregard the glowing reviews and eight-minute standing ovations. What really adds fuel to film festival publicity fires are the boos, the walkouts, the affected twitter rants, the ensuing backlashes, and counter-backlashes, and so on. One of the most recent to generate such heat is an adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s divisive 1965 novel The Painted Bird, a not-enormous work of historical fiction that has been turned into a nearly three-hour epic of the same name. Presented in black and white, it tells the story of one boy’s horrific odyssey through Eastern Europe during World War II where he is faced with events grisly enough to provoke what The Hollywood Reporter, amongst others, reported as “mass walkouts” when it played in Venice and Toronto earlier this season.
But what in the world ruffled all those feathers? Bird was adapted and directed by Václav Marhoul, a Prague-born actor and filmmaker whose previous...
But what in the world ruffled all those feathers? Bird was adapted and directed by Václav Marhoul, a Prague-born actor and filmmaker whose previous...
- 11/15/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The venerable sales company changed its strategy before Berlin.
Celluloid Dreams has unveiled a slew of deals on its Venice competition titles The Painted Bird and Babyteeth and Cannes selection The Swallows Of Kabul, in a sign that the rationalised, targeted sales and acquisition strategy it adopted earlier this year is yielding results.
Panahi announced in February that she and company vice-president Charlotte Mickie were rationalising Celluloid Dreams’s operations and rethinking the way they did sales to take a more targeted approach.
“Our strategy, to acquire films selectively for theatrical potential and maximise results, has proven to be a winner for us,...
Celluloid Dreams has unveiled a slew of deals on its Venice competition titles The Painted Bird and Babyteeth and Cannes selection The Swallows Of Kabul, in a sign that the rationalised, targeted sales and acquisition strategy it adopted earlier this year is yielding results.
Panahi announced in February that she and company vice-president Charlotte Mickie were rationalising Celluloid Dreams’s operations and rethinking the way they did sales to take a more targeted approach.
“Our strategy, to acquire films selectively for theatrical potential and maximise results, has proven to be a winner for us,...
- 11/7/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Czech director Vaclav Marhoul's The Painted Bird, a movie adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release next year. The Painted Bird provoked festival theater walkouts when debuting in Venice and then shifting to Toronto for a North American premiere.
Directed, written and produced by Marhoul, The Painted Bird stars Petr Kotlar, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.
"I deeply believe the movie’s advocacy ...
IFC Films plans a theatrical release next year. The Painted Bird provoked festival theater walkouts when debuting in Venice and then shifting to Toronto for a North American premiere.
Directed, written and produced by Marhoul, The Painted Bird stars Petr Kotlar, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.
"I deeply believe the movie’s advocacy ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Czech director Vaclav Marhoul's The Painted Bird, a movie adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.
IFC Films plans a theatrical release next year. The Painted Bird provoked festival theater walkouts when debuting in Venice and then shifting to Toronto for a North American premiere.
Directed, written and produced by Marhoul, The Painted Bird stars Petr Kotlar, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.
"I deeply believe the movie’s advocacy ...
IFC Films plans a theatrical release next year. The Painted Bird provoked festival theater walkouts when debuting in Venice and then shifting to Toronto for a North American premiere.
Directed, written and produced by Marhoul, The Painted Bird stars Petr Kotlar, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.
"I deeply believe the movie’s advocacy ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hard-hitting Venice Film Festival competition movie The Painted Bird has been selected by the Czech Film and Television Academy as the Czech Republic’s international Oscar entry.
Described as an “evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II,” director-producer Václav Marhoul’s black-and-white 35mm Holocaust feature follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosinski (Being There), the dark drama prompted a number of walk-outs at Toronto and Venice due to its tough subject matter.
Described as an “evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II,” director-producer Václav Marhoul’s black-and-white 35mm Holocaust feature follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosinski (Being There), the dark drama prompted a number of walk-outs at Toronto and Venice due to its tough subject matter.
- 9/16/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival seems to have found the most controversial film of the year.
The Painted Bird prompted walkouts from audience members at the festival after graphic scenes of violence, sexual assault, bestiality and mutilation, according to review by Xan Brooks for The Guardian.
Starring Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård and Udo Kier, the film follows a nameless Jewish boy (Petr Kotlar) left in the care of an elderly lady by his parents during World War II.
When the woman dies, the boy is left to wander from village to village where he inevitably ends up encountering different malevolent characters throughout the film.
The Painted Bird prompted walkouts from audience members at the festival after graphic scenes of violence, sexual assault, bestiality and mutilation, according to review by Xan Brooks for The Guardian.
Starring Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård and Udo Kier, the film follows a nameless Jewish boy (Petr Kotlar) left in the care of an elderly lady by his parents during World War II.
When the woman dies, the boy is left to wander from village to village where he inevitably ends up encountering different malevolent characters throughout the film.
- 9/4/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Adapted from Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel of the same title, The Painted Bird receives its ideal film treatment in Vaclav Marhoul’s heart-wrenching Czech Republic-Ukraine-Slovakia co-production. Making explicit the young protagonist’s Jewish background, Marhoul’s screenplay witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust through the dark, somber eyes of newcomer Petr Kotlar, who plays a boy wandering from village to village and from one brutality to another.
As in the book, the shock effect of coldly detailed incest, bestiality and sexual abuse, beatings, killings and mutilation is furiously nonstop in a film of nearly three hours. Rather than numbing ...
As in the book, the shock effect of coldly detailed incest, bestiality and sexual abuse, beatings, killings and mutilation is furiously nonstop in a film of nearly three hours. Rather than numbing ...
Adapted from Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel of the same title, The Painted Bird receives its ideal film treatment in Vaclav Marhoul’s heart-wrenching Czech Republic-Ukraine-Slovakia co-production. Making explicit the young protagonist’s Jewish background, Marhoul’s screenplay witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust through the dark, somber eyes of newcomer Petr Kotlar, who plays a boy wandering from village to village and from one brutality to another.
As in the book, the shock effect of coldly detailed incest, bestiality and sexual abuse, beatings, killings and mutilation is furiously nonstop in a film of nearly three hours. Rather than numbing ...
As in the book, the shock effect of coldly detailed incest, bestiality and sexual abuse, beatings, killings and mutilation is furiously nonstop in a film of nearly three hours. Rather than numbing ...
Variety has been given exclusive access to the international trailer for Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird,” which world premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival, and screens at the Toronto Film Festival in the Special Presentations section.
The cast, led by Petr Kotlar, includes Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Cvancarova and Aleksey Kravchenko. Celluloid Dreams has world rights to the film, with Celluloid Dreams and CAA Media Finance co-representing the U.S. rights.
The black-and-white 35mm film, based on Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, is described as an “evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II.”
It follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the country-side, from village to farmhouse.
As he struggles for survival,...
The cast, led by Petr Kotlar, includes Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Cvancarova and Aleksey Kravchenko. Celluloid Dreams has world rights to the film, with Celluloid Dreams and CAA Media Finance co-representing the U.S. rights.
The black-and-white 35mm film, based on Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, is described as an “evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II.”
It follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the country-side, from village to farmhouse.
As he struggles for survival,...
- 7/26/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Ensemble cast features Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands and Udo Kier.
Heading into Cannes, Celluloid Dreams has acquired international sales rights on Czech director Vaclav Marhoul’s holocaust tale The Painted Bird, an adaptation of late Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski’s classic novel about an orphaned Jewish boy fending for himself in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands and Udo Kier feature in the ensemble cast in the roles of the various characters who cross the boy’s path. Child actor Petr Kotlar makes his big screen debut as “the boy”.
“I...
Heading into Cannes, Celluloid Dreams has acquired international sales rights on Czech director Vaclav Marhoul’s holocaust tale The Painted Bird, an adaptation of late Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski’s classic novel about an orphaned Jewish boy fending for himself in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands and Udo Kier feature in the ensemble cast in the roles of the various characters who cross the boy’s path. Child actor Petr Kotlar makes his big screen debut as “the boy”.
“I...
- 4/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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