Dog Days

Name: Dog Days
Genre: Drama
Released: August 22, 2003
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Alfred Mrva, Christian Bakonyi, Christine Jirku, Claudia Martini, Erich Finsches

2003

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Kino International | Release Date: August 22, 2003 | Unrated

Starring: Alfred Mrva, Christian Bakonyi, Christine Jirku, Claudia Martini, Erich Finsches, Franziska Weisz, Georg Friedrich, Gerti Lehner, Maria Hofstätter, Rene Wanko, Victor Rathbone, Viktor Hennemann

Summary: Writer-director Ulrich Seidel's satirical slant on Viennese suburbia.

Director: Ulrich Seidl

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 121 min

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Michael Wilmington

Be forewarned: Dog Days, like many of Seidel's films, will drive some moviegoers to rage and walkouts with its unrelentingly depressing tone. But it also a remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker. Read full review

Deborah Young

An acid portrait of contemporary Austria (and by extension, the whole middle class) as unspeakably dull, violent and stupid. The film itself, miraculously, is just the opposite: vibrantly inventive, aesthetically rigorous, sardonic and occasionally quite brilliant. Read full review

A.O. Scott

The believability comes from the casting: he has found a group of actors and nonprofessionals who interact spectacularly well. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Strangely entertaining. Read full review

Scott Foundas

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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It is admirable and well-made, but unutterably depressing and unredeemed by any glimmer of hope. Read full review

Dennis Lim

Dog Days adheres dogmatically to the school of sado-miserablism that Seidl's compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner have turned into something of a national industry (non-Austrian adherents abound too, from Gaspar Noé to Harmony Korine). Read full review

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