It’s hard to shake the feeling that a genuinely arresting documentary was cast adrift somewhere along the line.
Space Dogs
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Austria, Germany · 2019
1h 31m
Director Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
Starring Aleksey Serebryakov
Genre Documentary
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Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space, and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow. "Space Dogs" recounts Laika's story parallel to a pack of stray dogs living in Moscow.
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The alienness of humanity, when seen from another perspective, is evident throughout the film.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Dog-lovers are the obvious target here; but the slow, meditative doc holds appeal for some of the rest of us as well.
The Film Stage by Leonardo Goi
It’s an exercise in empathy––and a spellbinding one at that.
The film draws us through its play toward darker, too-seldom-considered sides of human and doggy nature.
The New York Times by Teo Bugbee
Space Dogs commits to its art-house pretensions. The result isn’t pleasant, but it does effectively provoke.
The Playlist by Warren Cantrell
Lacking any thematic direction or narrative momentum, the film wanders around like so many Muscovite strays on the streets of Russia: aimless yet not exactly lost. A tough sit on top of all this, and lacking anything resembling a coherent point, this one should be shot into space without a return trajectory.
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