0 david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review July 16, 2020 by · Published July 16, 2020 · Last modified July 22, 2020 The Painted Bird: An Eastern European Film, by David Bax Before Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird (an adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel) is ten minutes old, our young protagonist (Petr Kotlár) has had his pet stolen from him and burned alive, been beaten, discovered the corpse of his abusive...