Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski (“Essential Killing”) says he only had to cry in the cinema once in his life: And that was in Robert Bresson’s “For Example Balthasar”. The ordeal of the donkey Balthasar is heartbreaking and inspired Skolimowski to tell a changing story from Central Europe from the perspective of a donkey named EO.
EO starts his career as a circus donkey and then changes owners: he meets friendly people as well as aggressive hooligans, priests and Isabelle Huppert. Life and death from the perspective of a donkey – absolutely touching.
INFO: POL/I 2022. 88 Min. Von Jerzy Skolimowski. The myth of Isabelle Huppert, Sandra Drzymalska.