If you think the black-and-white Czech film “The Painted Bird” will fulfill your monthly boring-art quota, just wait until the scene in which a nympho gets it on with a goat! Oh, the movie is ...

Jerzy Kosinski’s horrific novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the close of World War II is sensitively adapted for the screen in 'The Painted Bird,' Czech director Vaclav ...

Petr Kotlár in a scene from "The Painted Bird." (Courtesy of IFC Films) Václav Marhoul's "The Painted Bird" begins with utter bleakness, but over the course of its 169 minutes, it keeps finding lower ...

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 ...

Then there’s the supposedly autobiographical source novel by Jerzy Kosiński (best known for Hal Ashby’s Being There), now generally accepted to be a work of fiction. The Painted Bird doesn’t make for ...

Adapted from Jerzy Kosiński’s novel, “The Painted Bird” comes to life through Vàclav Marhoul’s lens. Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of The Boy as he wanders around Eastern European ...