“Eo”, randomly from the chaos of the world

Eo caused a sensation at the last Cannes Film Festival, winning a Jury Prize, even though all the critics were ready to cry out against lèse-majesté. In this case towards Robert Bresson, totem of a pure and hard auteur cinema, and his famous Random balthazar (1966) whose concept this new film takes up, namely the journey of a donkey promoted to main protagonist. By what miracle? Perhaps out of deference to Jerzy Skolimowski, an 84-year-old Polish veteran, more than three decades after his last competitive selection. But more surely out of amazement at what he had just sent in the face of the gratin of the 7th art. A truly free and wild film, made of fragments, without apparent thesis, absolutely irreducible to any other form of art and defying even the attempt at a critical approach.