Kirjava lintu - The Painted Bird

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

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

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.

”The painted bird” ett sömlöst, grymt mästerverk.