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Black Dog

2024 1h 46m Drama List
96% Tomatometer 28 Reviews Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together.
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Guan Hu delivers a poetic and redemptive journey through China with Black Dog, reminding us that the best of friends often has four legs.

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Philip De Semlyen Time Out Next to Umberto D., Chinese director Guan Hu may just have made the enduring masterpiece of man-and-dog movies -- Citizen Canine, if you will -- in this soul-filling homecoming odyssey set on the windswept fringes of the Gobi Desert. Rated: 4/5 Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Jonathan Romney Financial Times Black Dog registers as an existential fable about isolation, redemption, the possibility of making connections against the odds. It is also a crime thriller and a dazzling piece of landscape cinema. Rated: 5/5 Aug 29, 2024 Full Review Phil Hoad Guardian Its heartwarming aspect comes framed with real grandeur, and a stark absurdism and tightly wound sentimentality reminiscent at times of Takeshi Kitano. Rated: 4/5 Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Andrew Murray The Upcoming Hu’s Black Dog is a remarkable tale of companionship that hits in all the right spots. Rated: 4/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review William Stottor The Indiependent Via a blossoming relationship between a man and a dog, Guan manages to create something that is both sweeping and intimate. Rated: 4/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Stephen A. Russell Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Tracing the contours of foolish masculinity and its consequences, Black Dog is a drifting melody of melancholy lifted by the hope that floats above the sting of windborne grit. Sep 1, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together.
Director
Hu Guan
Producer
Jing Liang, Wenjiu Zhu
Screenwriter
Hu Guan, Rui Ge, Bing Wu
Production Co
The Seventh Art Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Runtime
1h 46m