Les chiens (1979)
(The Dogs)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Alain Jessua
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
The denizens of a French town keep dogs to protect them against intruders, and a young doctor treating the bitten tries to stop the situation getting out of hand.
Review:
Substitute firearms for the dogs and the allegorical argument becomes clear, but it is interminably drawn out in this pretentious 'Dogs that Ate Paris'. For anyone who has spent time in this nation of canine cosseters, however, its choruses of barking animals audible from outside town cannot but strike a chord of recognition.
(The Dogs)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Alain Jessua
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
The denizens of a French town keep dogs to protect them against intruders, and a young doctor treating the bitten tries to stop the situation getting out of hand.
Review:
Substitute firearms for the dogs and the allegorical argument becomes clear, but it is interminably drawn out in this pretentious 'Dogs that Ate Paris'. For anyone who has spent time in this nation of canine cosseters, however, its choruses of barking animals audible from outside town cannot but strike a chord of recognition.
(The Dogs)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Alain Jessua
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
The denizens of a French town keep dogs to protect them against intruders, and a young doctor treating the bitten tries to stop the situation getting out of hand.
Review:
Substitute firearms for the dogs and the allegorical argument becomes clear, but it is interminably drawn out in this pretentious 'Dogs that Ate Paris'. For anyone who has spent time in this nation of canine cosseters, however, its choruses of barking animals audible from outside town cannot but strike a chord of recognition.