This hugely disturbing, disgusting movie is likely to turn on film buffs with its clever cross-cutting, but it's ultimately a pretentious waste of time.
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10/03/03
Dog Days (2002)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:16
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: A relentlessly disturbing, depressing work.
Theatrical Release:Aug 22, 2003 Limited
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... [More]
Starring: Maria Hofstatter, Christine Jirku, Victor Henneman, Georg Friedrich
Director: Ulrich Seidl
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Reviews for Dog Days
The film does generate a unique level of intensity, and even the most harrowing scenes contain grace and humour.
03/13/02
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
This is one of those productions that is easier to admire than it is to like.
11/08/03
lewd and lurid
07/30/09
'People can be so cruel,' one character says after finding a poisoned animal. Judging by Dog Days, so can movie directors.
01/09/04
Strangely entertaining.
01/08/04
Top CriticJust because something is degrading and disturbing, doesn't mean it's art. This dog doesn't deserve a day.
12/05/03
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
A parade of sadism and misanthropy.
12/04/03
Top CriticA long slog through the slough of despond.
10/17/03
Top CriticWhat 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
No one here is beyond redemption. What leads one to suspect that Seidl is far more than a cold sensationalist is his ability to find that flicker of humanity in even his most wretched characters.
08/21/03
This is a lament on the human condition, free of scented roses and free of solemnity.
10/03/03
Top CriticOddly compelling, disturbing -- some might say disturbed -- look at suburban life, Austrian style.
01/29/04
Top CriticThe land of Mozart seems now inhabited by looney tunes.
08/13/03
The voyeurs in the film respond with predictable repulsion and sarcasm to Seidl’s lower middle-class cartoons.
08/19/03
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
This startling debut fiction feature goes to great, hectoring lengths to prove its final line: 'People are so cruel' -- a judgment from which the filmmaker himself is presumably not exempt.
08/19/03
Top CriticA loser in almost all respects, boasting a parade of nudity that you don't want to see, and over two hours of conversation yielding nothing of interest.
11/16/03
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