Animal adventure as psychedelic dream, Oscar-nominated donkey tale EO is that rarest of things: a narrative film that actively decentres the human perspective in pursuit of a new way of seeing.
The eponymous star of Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski's other-worldly feature is a plaintive grey donkey whose deep, dark eyes might be read as either windows to the abyss or a reflection of the world in all of its wonder – sometimes both — as he wanders across a vision of Europe populated by farmers, football fans and French countesses, adrift on the tide of fate.
