Stray Dogs

Name: Stray Dogs
Genre: Drama
Released: September 12, 2014
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 84

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 12, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free foodA father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. … Expand

Director: Ming-liang Tsai

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 138 min

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Sep 16, 2013

Every shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip. Read full review

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Patrick Gamble

Aug 24, 2014

Tsai's Stray Dogs is a masterpiece of social-realism, a distinctive and beguiling study of society's displaced and marginalised that plays to the beat of its own drum and refuses to conform to cinema's own commodification. Read full review

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Andrew Schenker

Aug 24, 2014

Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Sep 9, 2014

Stray Dogs evokes the whole of Tsai’s filmography, but also pays off his collaboration with Lee, who shows a side of himself that’s been hidden away for all these years. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Sep 12, 2014

It asks a lot of us. In fact it asks us to set aside everything we've been conditioned to think movies are, and roll with a different way of seeing and hearing things, and connect. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Sep 9, 2014

The lengthy final two shots (each running more than ten minutes) rank among the best work this inimitable artist has ever done. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Sep 16, 2013

Tsai here seems to be stripping his ornately eccentric style down to formal fundamentals. A certain pictorial grace remains; his sense of humor, sadly, appears to have been largely tossed out with the bathwater. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 25, 2020

This is one of the hateful cases of me saying, "This is not a film for everyone." Pretentious, of course, but completely true.

Stray Dogs from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, is a lengthy gloomy, and beautiful family drama that, due to its focus and style, completely departs from anyThis is one of the hateful cases of me saying, "This is not a film for everyone." Pretentious, of course, but completely true.

Stray Dogs from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, is a lengthy gloomy, and beautiful family drama that, due to its focus and style, completely departs from any mainstream current and becomes an offer that can only be enjoyed by film lovers interested in something. more than just entertainment.

The film is hypnotic and incredibly well shot, but not necessarily well-constructed narratively speaking.
The power comes from the images and the way the film surrounds you. The idea is to be contemplative and the film stands out in that field with its long and perfectly shots.
The work is not impeccable, but it's still, really, really good.

Strays Dogs is an immersive film if you're willing to experience it.
If it's not your style, better not even try it.… Expand

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