Space Dogs

Name: Space Dogs
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 11, 2020
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov

2020

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Icarus Films | Release Date (Streaming): September 11, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Aleksey Serebryakov

Summary: Laika, a stray dog picked up by the Soviet space program on the streets of Moscow, became the first living being to orbit the earth when she was launched into space on Sputnik 2. Although Laika would not survive the journey, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter trace the persistence of her memory and legacy into the present day. As theLaika, a stray dog picked up by the Soviet space program on the streets of Moscow, became the first living being to orbit the earth when she was launched into space on Sputnik 2. Although Laika would not survive the journey, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter trace the persistence of her memory and legacy into the present day. As the capsule containing Laika re-entered Earth’s orbit and began to burn up, the narrator announces “What had been a Moscow street dog had become a ghost.” The ghost Laika lives on in the present-day strays of Space Dogs. Photographed at ground level with wandering, hypnotic camera movements, the strays are seen navigating the urban environs of modern Moscow. In hewing closely to the dog’s point of view, the city is rendered as a strange, alien environment. Pulsating music from buildings and unidentified passerby take on an unfamiliar quality as the dogs explore this strange new world. [Icarus Films]… Expand

Director: Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Pat Brown

Sep 13, 2020

The film draws us through its play toward darker, too-seldom-considered sides of human and doggy nature. Read full review

The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Sep 9, 2020

It’s an exercise in empathy––and a spellbinding one at that. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Sep 7, 2020

The alienness of humanity, when seen from another perspective, is evident throughout the film. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 10, 2020

Dog-lovers are the obvious target here; but the slow, meditative doc holds appeal for some of the rest of us as well. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Sep 10, 2020

Space Dogs commits to its art-house pretensions. The result isn’t pleasant, but it does effectively provoke. Read full review

The Guardian Alex Mistlin

Sep 10, 2020

It’s hard to shake the feeling that a genuinely arresting documentary was cast adrift somewhere along the line. Read full review

The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Sep 12, 2020

Lacking any thematic direction or narrative momentum, the film wanders around like so many Muscovite strays on the streets of Russia: aimless yet not exactly lost. A tough sit on top of all this, and lacking anything resembling a coherent point, this one should be shot into space without a return trajectory. Read full review

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