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Sep 2, 2024 · Starring Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke and Zhang Li. This Cannes Un Certain Regard winner is a charmingly absurd tale of man’s best friend. Black Dog opens on the outskirts of the Gobi...
- Guan Hu
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Aug 30, 2024 · An ex-convict tasked with cleaning up a desert town in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics forms unlikely bond with a dog in this surprising crime drama from Guan Hu that mixes noir moodiness with slapstick absurdity.
Aug 27, 2024 · Set in a small town in the Gobi Desert, Black Dog takes place in the weeks leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The screenplay, co-written by Guan, Ge Rui, and Wu Bing, follows Lang (an impressive Eddie Peng) upon his release from prison.
Aug 30, 2024 · But half-measures fill the film. Lang is half a drifter in what’s left of a dogville half-roiled by simmering conflicts, half-reconciliations and semi-alarming earth tremors, occasionally backed by the cracked laments of Pink Floyd on the soundtrack.
Sep 4, 2024 · Black Dog. Director: Guan Hu • Writers: Guan Hu, Ge Rui, Wu Bing. Starring: Eddie Peng, Jia Zhangke, Tong Liya, Zhang Yi, Xin. China • 1hr 56mins. Opens Hong Kong Sep 5 • IIA. Grade: B.
Aug 29, 2024 · Black Dog is a less than perfect film and sometimes elusive, but it uses cinema to express more than is to be found in its surface narrative. It ends with a double dedication by Hu – first ‘For all those who have hit the road again’ and secondly ‘For my father’. Original Title: Gou zhen. MANSEL STIMPSON.
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Aug 28, 2024 · Directed by Guan Hu. Starring Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yi, Zhou You, Xin the dog. 96 mins. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Far more than a shaggy dog story, Eddie Peng and four-legged Xin bond in Guan Hu’s Un Certain Regard winning film…