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12/30/06
Dog Days (2002)
48 %
Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 16 Rotten:17 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
A relentlessly disturbing, depressing work.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis: DOG DAYS is a scathing satire, exposing the ugly underbelly of contemporary suburban mores. It is the first dramatic feature of notorious documentarian Ulrich Seidl (ANIMAL LOVE). With a keen visual sense and lacerating wit, Seidl weaves together the sordid tales of a large group of people... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Maria Hofstatter, Christine Jirku, Victor Henneman, Georg Friedrich, Alfred Mrva
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Screenwriter: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Producer: Helmut Grasser, Philippe Bober
Screenwriter: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Producer: Helmut Grasser, Philippe Bober
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01/26/06
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10/06/04
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10/02/02
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Missing ... is any real feeling of compassion towards these forlorn individuals, any sense of the humanity that lies beneath the grotesque façades.
08/26/02
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Dark, probing, and truly disturbing, Seidl's astonishing feature debut explores angst, anomie, and alientaion in Vienna's upscale suburbs in visually audacious mode that goes beyond Todd Solondz and Todd Haynes.
06/13/06
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10/06/04
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Stylistically void, intellectually vapid, narratively coarse, and exploitative of its actors in the worst possible way, the film is an abject failure on every level.
05/15/04
Oddly compelling, disturbing -- some might say disturbed -- look at suburban life, Austrian style.
01/29/04
Mosaic filmmaking at its most irresolute... [its few affecting] moments are antiseptic, sealed off from any larger relatable context or emotional arc.
01/12/04
Those who know that human beings are more than just the sum of their worst impulses ... will wonder where the rest of the story went.
01/09/04
'People can be so cruel,' one character says after finding a poisoned animal. Judging by Dog Days, so can movie directors.
01/09/04
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What some detect as cruelty in Dog Days is in fact a bleak but deeply felt humanism -- a yearning that we might all learn to better love our neighbors and, perhaps more importantly, ourselves.
01/08/04
A masterpiece of misanthropy...an uncompromisingly bleak reverie on human misery and meanness.
12/30/03
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