Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is an adaptation of an infamous and controversial book of the same name by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, itself a powerful work of fiction based on the ...
This image released by IFC Films shows Stellan Skarsgaard in a scene from "The Painted Bird." (IFC Films via AP) Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness but over the course of ...