Young actor Petr Kotlar and director Vaclav Marhoul at the 76 Venice International Film Festival 2019. (photo credit: Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) ...

Vaclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosinsky’s novel The Painted Bird has been on quite a journey. The film took more than a decade to be made and it premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where ...

Petr Kotlár plays the unnamed central character, a young Jewish boy in Eastern Europe during World War 2 sent by his parents to live with a distant relative, unwittingly compelled to spend much of the ...

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Around the third hour or so of “The Painted Bird,” a grueling, pristinely photographed compendium of wartime horrors, the camera unexpectedly alights on a small, precious act of human decency. A ...