{"id":8495,"date":"2020-07-17T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:00:08","slug":"review-the-painted-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8495","title":{"rendered":"Review: THE PAINTED BIRD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-900x1349.png 900w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-450x675.png 450w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1-721x1080.png 721w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/thepaintedbird1.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrowing, unpleasant, beautifully crafted, and unapologetically bleak, Czech director V\u00e1clav Marhoul\u2019s adaptation of Jerzy Kosi\u0144ski\u2019s novel, \u201cThe Painted Bird,\u201d will divide audiences. It\u2019s not a film for the faint of heart.<br><br>An odyssey, \u201cThe Painted Bird\u201d is the story The Boy (Petr Kotl\u00e1r), who lives in Eastern Europe in the waning months of WWII. To protect him from persecution, his parents send him to live with an older woman to act as his foster mother. Those best-laid plans lead to an epic nightmare when the old woman dies, and The Boy is on his own.<br><br>He wanders the countryside from village to village where he\u2019s subjected to unbelievable cruelty. &#8220;The Painted Bird&#8221; is not a story that argues in favor of humanity\u2019s inherent good nature.<br><br>The pain (physical, mental, sexual, emotional) is overwhelming, but while some viewers may not be able to take the horror, The Boy preservers. Over the movie\u2019s two-hour forty-nine minute running time, very few good things happen. It\u2019s quite possibly the darkest and most dour viewing experience I\u2019ve endured since \u201cHeaven\u2019s Gate.\u201d And even that epic disaster had moments of repose.<br><br>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/07\/the-painted-bird-bleak-czech-film-isnt-for-everyone\">https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/07\/the-painted-bird-bleak-czech-film-isnt-for-everyone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleak Czech drama isn&#8217;t for everyone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1976,79,1977,1849],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-czech","tag-drama","tag-war-horse","tag-wwii","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}