Jerzy Kosinski's brutal novel of Nazi-occupied Poland loses none of its inhumanity

A wandering boy endures unbearable cruelty from a variety of strangers in searing adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel.

★★★★☆ Premiering in competition at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Václav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosińsk’s 1965 novel The Painted ...

04/09/2019 - VENICE 2019: Václav Marhoul's audaciously arty account of a suffering World War II boy walks a constant fine line between the sublime and the r...

Petr Kotlar stars in Václav Marhoul's stark black-and-white Czech drama. Read the Empire review.

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Czech director Vaclav Marhoul’s film follows a boy’s journey of horrors during the second world war

Jerzy Kosinski’s horrific novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the close of World War II is sensitively adapted for the screen in ...

Set in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, Vaclav Marhoul's new film perceives hatred as humanity's defining feature. But its message is decontextual...

Václav Marhoul's black-and-white film is an epic portrait of inhumanity in the tradition of "Come and See" and "The Tin Drum."

Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning

Václav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's 1965 novel is punishingly if effectively bleak.

Just wait until the scene in which a nympho gets it on with a goat!

An ambitious adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s debut novel doesn’t quite translate to the screen.

Film critic Oliver Jones weighs the objectively beautiful film’s brutal depictions of atrocity, rape and unvarnished evil.

It’s in trying to locate the—for lack of a better term—heart of the movie where problems emerge. 

Translated from the printed page onto a black and white movie screen, removed from the heady “Eastern European novelist chic” of the Nabokov ’60s, and ...

'The Painted Bird' brings the notorious WWII novel to the screen and turns it into an endurance test of violence and depravity. Our review.

This 169-minute, black & white adaptation of the controversial novel is unrelenting in its violence and despair

An abandoned boy witness atrocities throughout Europe at the close of World War II

Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” is an impenetrable slog, a parade of agony that begins with a treasured pet being set on fire by village bullies, ...

Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul's three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga

Václav Marhoul’s epic adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s brutal 1965 novel is skillfully provocative, but not entirely worth it.

Václav Marhoul's muscular, savagely realized third feature puts an unnamed Jewish boy through a challenging litany of Holocaust horrors.