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Animal Love (Tierische Liebe)

Animal Love (Tierische Liebe) (1996)

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The love between humans and their pets takes a darker turn in this Austrian documentary that is as disturbing as it is provocative. While not exactly delving into actual bestiality, filmmaker Ulrich Seidl takes viewers upsettingly close as he examines the reasons why some people are able to be more intimate with their dogs than with other people. There is something grotesque and decidedly unsympathetic about the way Seidl chooses to portray his lonely subjects and their pets. Some of the

Dec 14, 2004

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um...whoa dude...whoa. one of the weirder docs i've ever seen, and be warned-- a FAR bleaker film than the bright cover and title would imply. there was no real plot of trajectory to this film, just strategically juxtaposed clips that hint at the emotionally desperate humans' fraught relationship with their pets; hovering between sadism or bestiality but never quite touching either.
January 1, 2012
Very difficult to watch - an extremely nihilistic social commentary on loneliness among social outcasts and the coping mechanisms which result . . . left me feeling as sad for the animals in these people's lives as I did for their (often) horrifying conditions
September 19, 2010
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