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Monday, May 13, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:45pm

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Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#dogs

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Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
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Despite beginning with the ominous appearance of a detached body part
bubbling up out of nowhere, Bogdan Mirica's first feature silently,
steadily sets the notorious slow-burn of the Romanian New Wave to
scalding. A crime-thriller with the minimalist existentialism of a
Western, "Dogs" also pays ample respects to horror, as a familiar plot
of that genre comes into gradual focus: the city-dweller intruding
upon a backwater rural town that operates by different, darker rules.
The brooding, enigmatic Roman — played by Dragos Bucur of "Porumboiu's
Police, Adjective" (2009) — surveys the remote "wasteland" he has
inherited from a grandfather with a sordid past, while the local
police chief investigates accumulating, unnerving evidence of a known
monster further unhinging when its kingdom is threatened. With
surreal, absurdist detail and subtle, painstakingly etched tension,
the penetrating realism of Dogs reaches deep into primal fears of the
unknown and in particular, a menacing, corrupt wilderness scarcely
under control, a vicious dog on a fraying leash.

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Monday, May 13, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:45

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