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    Movie review: 'EO,' a gorgeous portrait of a donkey, is the film you've been braying for

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2022 4 minutes
    Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski made a wandering donkey the star in the movie“ EO.”.

    In one of the most astonishing sequences in "EO," a rapturous hymn to the natural world from 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, a wandering donkey gets lost in a forest primeval. Night has fallen, but pools of moonlight illuminate this hushed, dark world in all its living glory. A little frog skims along the surface of a rushing stream. A skittering spider spins its web. An owl frowns down at the donkey from its treetop perch, as though registering an intruder's presence. There are also a couple of howling wolves, a wary red fox and, in time, an array of green laser beams announcing the presence of nearby hunters, whose gunshots shatter the serenity of this woodland idyll.

    The entire sequence tells much

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