The Painted Bird (Nabarvené ptáche) (2019)

“(MU) Can't deny it has wonderful image/scenes as the boy and the crows, his vengeance with the cheat's head, the rats and so on. But isnt there too many repetitive attacks and assaults on him? He doesn't seem to feel pain but he is vindictive...” read more

Films Watched In The Year Of The Tiger (2022) (103 movies items)

"20.3. Another genocide film. This one's about a life and suffering of a Jewish boy in the hands of "evil" slavic peasants. The cinematography is remarkable, but the film itself is just internally empty shockfest."

Watched films in 2020 (97 movies items)

"22.11. Teatteri Pikkupoika kärsii sietämättömän paljon toisen maailmansodan alla jossain Itä-Euroopassa, jossa sodasta ei taideta juuri tietää. Kärsimys näyttää tarttuvan ja elokuvan rakenteestakin johtuen, on tämä jo lähellä mennä komiikan puolelle. Kärsimystä ja hyväksikäyttöä tuottavat vain vastaavista oloista olevat siviilit. Raastavasti vihjataan, että tämä saattoi olla jopa se helpompi tie. Tai samankaltainen. Tai kaukana pahimmista kuvitelmistakaan. Joka tapauks"

The Best Films of 2010s (50 movies items)

" Jerzy Kosiński's The Painted Bird is one of the most distressing novels I've ever read. So it's no wonder that the film is also one of the most distressing ones I've ever seen. But what Marhoul does here with the adaptation is something remarkable: Much of the violence of the film is happening off-screen, camera just hinting that something has just happened. Telling untold stories from the horrors of WWII from a rather rarer point of view characters this film is remarkable, scary but breatht"