A haunting masterpiece that still unsettles readers decades later, 'The Painted Bird' proves why some books deserve the Nobel ...

STEPS by Jerzy Kosinski. 148 pages. Random House. $4.95. In his semiautobiographical first novel, The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski told of a six-year-old Eastern European city boy who is set adrift in ...

Vaclav Marhoul‘s The Painted Bird (2019) movie trailer has been by IFC Films and stars Petr Kotlar, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, and Julian Sands. The Painted Bird‘s plot synopsis: ...

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 ...

I never made it all the way through Jerzy Kosinski’s bleak and brooding 1965 novel “The Painted Bird.” By the time I tried, it had won the National Book Award, and was being recommended to me by ...

Where the book was internal, as novels are, the film keeps us at a visual and emotional remove. We wonder at every turn what the boy, played by Petr Kotlár, is thinking and feeling, unless he has ...

An epic pastoral horror pitting human savagery against the impossible calm of nature, Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul’s adaptation of Polish author Jerzy Kosiński’s rattling World War II novel “The ...

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 ...

Anyone depending on the kindness of strangers is going nowhere fast in “The Painted Bird,” a child’s-eye Holocaust drama of such unrelenting brutality as to make even the vaguest gestures of humanity ...