Trailer.
Looks like a great cast and a sweet film. I'm looking forward to this.
Year Of The Dog (Mike White, 2007)
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Los Angeles Times Making Of article
Premiere's Q&A with Molly Shannon
New York Times' profile of Shannon
Premiere's Q&A with Molly Shannon
New York Times' profile of Shannon
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zedz
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It's not a bad film, nicely shot by Tim Orr in OCD symmetry. Molly Shannon is good as the nice girl going off the deep end with compassion overload (dog owners will identify like crazy), but her downward spiral reads more bumpily than I think White intended. One of the nicest things about the film is the ending, which artfully dodges the "reassertion of mainstream norms" it seems headed for. Some fine supporting work from the ever reliable John C Reilly, the lively Regina King, a slippery Peter Saarsgaard and a very funny, very prissy Laura Dern.
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Antoine Doinel
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Saw this tonight and it was disappointing and certainly much heavier, and stranger than the trailer suggested. Tim Orr's cinematography was "nice", but felt like a hugely watered down version of the Wes Anderson/Jared Hess school of perfect framing and symmetry. The cast themselves save the film from being any worse than it is, for the film's chest thumping "veganism-as-path-to-self-fulfillment" comes dangerously close to being strident, not to mention completely overlooking the complete selfishness disguised as sacrifice of the ending.
That Mike White said he wrote this in the wake of losing a pet isn't surprising, but it may have helped to wait a few months before putting pen to paper.
That Mike White said he wrote this in the wake of losing a pet isn't surprising, but it may have helped to wait a few months before putting pen to paper.