What: EO
Premiere date: February 21, 2023
2022 has been the 12 months of the donkey. From The Banshees of Inisherin‘s true lead, Jenny, to that unspeakable scene in Triangle of Disappointment, this award season is seeing a supreme reign of donkeys for the primary time since Shrek. The final word donkey movie, nonetheless, is Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, an epic odyssey nearly completely starring a donkey.
Nominated for Finest Worldwide Function Movie at this 12 months’s Academy Awards, EO is a sweetly unusual must-watch assured to make you cry and chortle all on the identical time. Should you’re able to stream some of the distinctive movies on this 12 months’s Oscars line-up, this is the whole lot it’s essential to know.
The place can I watch EO?
EO is debut on The Criterion Channel(Opens in a brand new tab) Feb. 21. The movie can even be obtainable to lease or buy on Amazon(Opens in a brand new tab), Apple(Opens in a brand new tab), and Vudu(Opens in a brand new tab).
What’s EO about?
EO follows the epic journey of a lone donkey named, nicely, EO. After being faraway from a touring circus, EO begins wandering throughout the Polish and Italian countryside. He encounters a complete array of individuals, from clergymen to soccer groups, who’re both benevolently type or begrudgingly merciless.
EO is a neatly unusual story about humanity as a lot as it’s about our four-legged pal. With beautiful cinematography courtesy of Michael Dymek, and an orchestral rating by Pawel Mykietyn, the movie is a transferring expertise on all ends.
What have folks mentioned about EO?
Mashable’s Belen Edwards proclaimed EO as one of many “must-see” movies out of The New York Movie Competition. She writes “EO [is] assured to be one of many strangest but most transferring movies you may see out of NYFF this 12 months.”
“The movie places us squarely in EO’s sneakers (or hooves?) with beautiful cinematography and an appropriately ambling plot. As cute as EO and a few of his adventures are, EO doesn’t shrink back from violence in the direction of its lead, making for a movie that’s as brutal and melancholy as it’s engrossing and, sometimes, candy.”
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