Scott Simon talks to Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski about his new film "EO", the story of a donkey once it leaves the circus. "EO," Jerzy Skolimowski's new film, opens on a pair of ...

We all have things we don't like in movies. For some it's horror, for others bloodshed, for still others, nudity and sex. For my part, I've always found it excruciating to watch a film in which ...

The animal, reared in a circus, enters into a forest and a world of wild animals. For the first and only time in the movie, he is free. EO, the donkey who shares a name with the film, sprints from ...

Like a mistreated starlet, nature often gets a bum deal in the movies. When the light is good, you can always just turn the camera on it and make a pretty picture. But it takes a great deal of ...

She is Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), the donkey’s partner in a circus act and a source of protection against the carnival’s meaner elements. The story proceeds episodically, as EO is relocated ...

But if they were, Jenny the donkey would certainly qualify ... after getting separated from his caretaker at a traveling circus. He is picked up by a rowdy soccer team and then brutalized by ...

He is a circus animal who is cared for by Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska) who is part of the Cyrk Orion. She feeds EO and gives him affection, and the donkey is wonderfully expressive even as the ...

Heartbreak is baked into the movie’s logline: EO, a donkey happily performing before adoring circus crowds with his handler, Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), is wrested from her custody by the state.

Jerzy Skolimowski's thrillingly imaginative new film, EO, follows a former circus donkey on a journey across modern Europe. It's a strange,... This brash film about a wandering donkey may just ...