The Painted Bird review, Culture Whisper
There are those stories – real and fictional – that just plunge deeper and deeper into a dark well of suffering. The remaining light rockets upwards, shrinking to a hopeless spec. Such is the life of the unnamed Jewish Boy in The Painted Bird, who endures a Jobian odyssey across eastern Europe during WWII.
He suffers the presence of paedophiles, wife-beaters, hysterical townsfolk, and Nazi soldiers in wide, monochrome landscapes that avoid colour at all costs.
