Dogman [Sub: Eng]
In a periphery suspended between metropolis and wilderness, where the only law seems to be that of the strongest, Marcello is a small and gentle man who divides his days between work in his modest grooming salon for dogs, love for his daughter Sofia, and an ambiguous relationship of subjection with Simoncino, a former boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. After yet another overwhelming, determined to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will imagine a revenge with an unexpected outcome.
12 September 1979, Rome, Lazio, Italy
October 12, 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
27 March 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
September 10, 2018
Garrone's film is a one-note loop of a persistently passive man.September 05, 2018
The naively amenable character is wonderfully observed by Fonte, and early scenes show delicious whimsy and black comedy.May 17, 2018
A teeth-chattering culmination of Matteo Garrone's darkest themes.September 07, 2018
Garrone excels at gradually increasing his vice grip on an initially joyful, humanist milieu.September 18, 2018
If Fellini had made gritty ultra-violent movies they would have looked like this.September 16, 2018
Matteo Garrone's unflinching character study... has a strong chance at the Oscars because of Fonte's expressive performanceMay 25, 2018
The overall feel is of the kind of Aesop's fable Scorsese would tell his kids.September 12, 2018
What's most amazing about Dogman is its ability to speak truthfully using metaphor and extremity. It's art.September 05, 2018
By redefining the dichotomous categories of "victim" and "executioner," Garrone creates an intriguing coming-of-fear story.May 17, 2018
This isn't all that much of a mystery... Garrone's oppressively bleak new film isn't memorable enough to help us with that. Woof.September 06, 2018
It's all surface level stuff, and while it's appropriately grimy, it's like being punished and chastised for something you already know to be true.May 19, 2018
I might have bought what he's doing in a different film, but the one that Garrone has made strains too hard to have it both ways.