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Dog's Dialogue(Movie, 1977)

Original title: "Colloque de chiens" (French/FR)
22min | Genres: Crime, Drama
Dog's DialogueRating: 3.5/5 (with 1111 votes)
Dog's Dialogue (French: Colloque de chiens) is a 1977 French is a surrealist short crime film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. The film contains popular conventions of the photo-romance but also can be viewed as a parody of the Brazilian telenovela or melodrama and pop culture stereotypes. The story, told almost entirely in still images, revolves around a young girl who is told her mother is not her real mother. The girl leaves her small town, grows into a beautiful woman, and starts searching for love and fulfillment in undesirable places. The story is narrated off-screen, and the stills are intercut with film footage of a city landscape and dogs barking. The film deals with topics of gender, sexuality, murder, prostitution, and gender/identity alterations. The motifs of gender subversion, still images, and dispersed bodies are seen in this film along with many other of Ruiz's films. A main subject of this film is the relationship between stillness and movement and the repetitions of images, gestures and statements that are ironic yet believable. The film stars Eva Simonet and Silke Humel and is narrated by Robert Darmel in the French version and Michael Graham in the English vers... ()
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About Dog's Dialogue

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/17/1979
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Film Editor: Valeria Sarmiento
Composer: Jorge Arriagada
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Colloque de chiens"
"Coloquio de perros"
"Dysputa psów"
"Dog Symposium"
Keywords: short film

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