Ten is a difficult age. Just on the cusp of puberty, one might be emotionally more mature than kids a few years older yet still be perceived and treated as a child. One might already have begun to experience adult desires, but have no way of exploring them, even in play, because one cannot compete for the attention of kids whose bodies have begun to change against others in that same situation. For Ewa (Katell Varvat) it’s particularly tough because of something which happened concerning her brother, who is no longer around. Other local kids refer to him as crazy.
In her room, which has an Interview With The Vampire poster on the wall, Ewa recites Dracula from memory and dons a black cape with a red lining. It seems to be Renfield with whom she identifies most strongly, yet, confronted with the eternity which she believes lies ahead of.
In her room, which has an Interview With The Vampire poster on the wall, Ewa recites Dracula from memory and dons a black cape with a red lining. It seems to be Renfield with whom she identifies most strongly, yet, confronted with the eternity which she believes lies ahead of.
- 8/2/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Eo (2022).It is not often that a film is made with radical sympathy. Too often, movies ignore the longing and pain of people, excluding their existence in form and feeling from storyworlds. And if such things are acknowledged, the movie will tend to make up for this rarity by overplaying misery and desperation. Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo, a tremendously sad but also overwhelmingly beautiful picture, chooses the radical path. The film is devoted, in body and soul, style and spirit, to sympathizing with another creature, and one who suffers a great deal without exploiting either its pathos or the viewer’s emotional reserves. Skolimowski and his co-writer, producer, and wife Ewa, in the spirit of great compassion, tell the story not of a human creature, but of an animal; and better yet, a donkey.Even with Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966) as a precedent, it’s an unexpected subject,...
- 11/17/2022
- MUBI
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