Synopsis
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
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Cast
- Sandra DrzymalskaKasandra
- Isabelle HuppertThe Countess
- Lorenzo ZurzoloVito
- Mateusz KościukiewiczMateo
- Tomasz OrganekZiom
- Lolita ChammahDora
- Agata SasinowskaKaja
- Anna RokitaDorota
- Michał PrzybysławskiZenek
- Gloria IradukundaZea
Recommendations
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Paste Magazine
EO seems to be getting at the rhythm of life—up, down, happy, sad, joyous, torturous, cyclical, always changing, never fully understood. That’s how we see ourselves most preciously in EO. We’re never in control, even when we think we are. - 83
The Film Stage
Skolimowski uses cinema to create a non-headset-required virtual-reality experience of another creature’s life—an empathy machine, if you will. - 83
IndieWire
In Bresson’s version, it’s the humans around the donkey who are the true center of the story. Not so in EO. This is Donkeyvision, and we’re better off for it. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite a shred of story that’s told episodically, EO, which clocks in at a concise 86 minutes, can be an engrossing experience. - 80
Screen Daily
A potent emotional charge, very contemporary eco-consciousness, and film-making that at its best fairly sizzles in its strangeness mark out EO as an animal film that stands defiantly on its own hooves. - 80
Variety
EO is a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy, wide eyes of a donkey whom we come to adore. - 75
The Playlist
Eo is a joyful, experimental, and strangely moving piece of filmmaking that doesn’t always take itself seriously—yet it is nothing if not sincere. - 75
Slant Magazine
EO feels freed of plot, free of expectation, driven only by the need to honor its own internal, poetic drive.
