The Painted Bird

...is impressive on a number of levels … most of them technical.

...is theatre of cruelty at its most literal.

This had audiences groping blindly for the exits at last year’s Venice film festival...

There is little mercy in this unspooling odyssey of debasement and degradation, a beautifully shot nightmare presenting the very worst of mankind.

Marhoul set out to make an “unblinking” adaptation of the novel, and he succeeded.

Filmæstetik i ypperste kvalitet, men (...) uophørligt fokuseret på menneskehedens værste og mest primitive instinkter...