A Bulldog for Christmas

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Audience Member Bad acting and no feel , charm , or comedy as per not my type of Christmas family movie. Home alone to Christmas with the Kranks would better then this. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Someone once wrote of this legendary epic that the director "has little interest in moving his camera, long takes and static shots adding to the sense of desolate gravitas, until it feels like a medieval morality play. Yet for all its starkness there's a warm compassion to be found here." = oh hang on, that was The Seventh Seal. Still you get the idea. This is a film unafraid to embrace the terrible void at the centre of modern life. All is stripped back, scenes, lighting, dialogue, technique - to lay bare the sheer pointless futility of existence. In its tawdry emptiness we find the mirror to the bleakness of our own soul. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Ben Johnson said Shakespeare was not of our age, but for all time. He will have company in the form of Henrique Couto, director and writer of A Bulldog for Christmas. This transcendental masterpiece weaves beauty and genius together into a pure and terrifying work of art. From the opening scene in the airport, you begin to realise the budget, nay the scope, of this awe-inspiring juggernaut. This film defies mere genres. It ranges from the proposal scene where tension and suspense would put even Hitchcock to shame to the understated beauty of young Sally's conversations with her grandfather. Yet, it ascends to some of its highest heights it the surrealist magnum opus that is the office party. Who really is the drunk girl and what are her real motivations? What are they actually doing in the cupboard standing still? Why does she scream slightly before the door opens? Why does he then block the door? I am not nearly clever enough to fully appreciate or understand this film. Yet, even though I can see as though through a glass darkly I can still marvel. For example, the elf(?) is one of the great comedic characters. I do not think I will ever stop laughing at the moment Sally is silenced and he takes the pun to new levels, rarely even dreamed of in a major motion picture. But, to talk about it in scenes in this way detracts from the towering achievement and mystery of this film. For it is through its many mysteries and secrets can the truth be revealed as to its majesty. It is necessary to ponder why the bedroom at night is much brighter than the car (which seems to rock like a boat and be lit like it is in someone's garage). You must question quite why no one seems to overly care or wonder where Sally has gone or try and find out where this bulldog has come from. You need to query quite why the bulldog remained after Sally's soul(?) left it and quite what the experience must have been for it. All this and more (like why you can sometimes see cameras in mirrors), you must ponder to appreciate what is, without a shred of the merest hesitation, the great masterpiece of our species. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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