London Film Festival: EO Review

<p>Joint winner of the Cannes Jury Prize,&nbsp;<em>EO,&nbsp;</em>made its way to my home city and it was just as harrowing as the first time I watched it. Jerzy Skolimowski&rsquo;s masterfully soulful film forces us to experience a complex and cruel world through the lens of a donkey. Both inspired and inspiring, we are taken on the harshest journey imaginable: the journey of an animal alongside humans.</p> <p>We begin in a disorienting space with flashing red lights and a donkey on the ground. Encouraged to stand by Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), we see that the donkey, EO, is with a travelling circus. Whether or not he has any particular act to follow, the sensory overload brings us (literally) eye-to-eye with EO&rsquo;s fear of standing in a circus in front of a drunken audience. However, when the circus&rsquo;s animals are repossessed, EO embarks on a bewildering odyssey from place to place with little opportunity for respite.</p> <p><a href="https://elizabethsorrell.medium.com/london-film-festival-eo-review-4dc13c33ac86"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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