The Painted Bird Book

Some words and sentences linger for months after being read. For Jerzy Kosiński’s “The Painted Bird,” there are entire chapters that continue to haunt me years later. I first read this book in high ...

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 ...

Maine Campus: The most disturbing must-read: ‘The Painted Bird’ by Jerzy Kosiński

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Washington Times: Review: ‘Painted Bird’ brings a disputed novel to grim life

Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness but over the course of its 169-minute running time, keeps finding lower depths of misery. When it premiered last fall at the Venice Film ...

Austin American-Statesman: Movie review: Jerzy Kosinski’s ‘The Painted Bird’ comes to grim but hypnotic life on the screen

Movie review: Jerzy Kosinski’s ‘The Painted Bird’ comes to grim but hypnotic life on the screen

The Washington Post: Film adaptation of ‘The Painted Bird’ is a shocking, deeply moving allegory of war

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When “The Painted Bird” was first shown at film festivals in the fall — way back when people could still sit in movie theaters — there were mass walkouts reported at Venice and Toronto, by viewers who ...

Film adaptation of ‘The Painted Bird’ is a shocking, deeply moving allegory of war

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News 13: Review: 'Painted Bird' brings a disputed novel to grim life

Yahoo: ‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity

‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity

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