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Dogs Don't Wear Pants will be too intense for many viewers, but for those who can take the punishment, there's pleasure in this stark drama's pain.
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It is a serious, sometimes funny, occasionally disturbing and eventually joyful (a closing club-set scene is punch-the-air good) meditation on grief, loss and the healing power whips and chains. March 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It is a serious, sometimes funny, occasionally disturbing and eventually joyful (a closing club-set scene is punch-the-air good) meditation on grief, loss and the healing power whips and chains.
Kevin Maher
The script takes all sorts of twists. The changes of pace and mood feel natural, and even when things get heavy, it's funny. Some viewers will groan with pleasure, some pain. March 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The script takes all sorts of twists. The changes of pace and mood feel natural, and even when things get heavy, it's funny. Some viewers will groan with pleasure, some pain.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
This is a very hardcore film - there were a couple of moments when I couldn't look, and was longing for the safe word to make the violence stop. March 19, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This is a very hardcore film - there were a couple of moments when I couldn't look, and was longing for the safe word to make the violence stop.
Peter Bradshaw
The feel-good feel-bad movie of the year. March 18, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The feel-good feel-bad movie of the year.
Josh Slater-Williams
The catchy title may derive from the puppy-mistress roleplay through which its characters initially connect, but "Dogs Don't Wear Pants" keeps their power dynamic intriguingly fluid and reversible as the relationship unfolds. June 13, 2019 | Full Review…
The catchy title may derive from the puppy-mistress roleplay through which its characters initially connect, but "Dogs Don't Wear Pants" keeps their power dynamic intriguingly fluid and reversible as the relationship unfolds.
Guy Lodge
However limited its ambitions, Dogs Don't Wear Pants is still a witty premise clothed in an attractive technical package. May 21, 2019 | Full Review…
However limited its ambitions, Dogs Don't Wear Pants is still a witty premise clothed in an attractive technical package.
Stephen Dalton
An erotic, blackly comic drama, Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää's third feature is as much about the transformative power of grief as much as it is about its masochistic self-perpetuation. March 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An erotic, blackly comic drama, Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää's third feature is as much about the transformative power of grief as much as it is about its masochistic self-perpetuation.
Christopher Machell
An idiosyncratic study of loneliness and loss that draws to a close in comedic, cockle-warming style. March 27, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An idiosyncratic study of loneliness and loss that draws to a close in comedic, cockle-warming style.
Emma Simmonds
Dogs Don't Wear Pants couldn't be any more Finnish if it were directed by Aki Kaurismaki; bone dry humor, laissez-faire attitudes, and free-range teenagers fill every frame. March 24, 2020 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Dogs Don't Wear Pants couldn't be any more Finnish if it were directed by Aki Kaurismaki; bone dry humor, laissez-faire attitudes, and free-range teenagers fill every frame.
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
[I]ts third-act shift into a weirdly upbeat black comedy about a middle-aged man finding his BDSM-themed bliss feels a little unearned. March 23, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[I]ts third-act shift into a weirdly upbeat black comedy about a middle-aged man finding his BDSM-themed bliss feels a little unearned.
Alistair Harkness
Beneath it all is the dippy grief-stricken sweetness of Truly, Madly, Deeply or Sleepless in Seattle - albeit with added whips. March 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Beneath it all is the dippy grief-stricken sweetness of Truly, Madly, Deeply or Sleepless in Seattle - albeit with added whips.
Mark Kermode
A surprisingly joyful and darkly comic exploration of grief, trauma and desire. March 21, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
A surprisingly joyful and darkly comic exploration of grief, trauma and desire.
Laurence Boyce
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