Dog Days

    Dog Days
    2001

    Synopsis

    Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

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    Cast

    • Maria HofstätterDie Anhalterin
    • Alfred MrvaDer Mann für die Sicherheit
    • Franziska WeiszDie Freundin des Opel-Freaks
    • Christine JirkuLehrerin und Geliebte von Vikerl
    • Viktor HennemannVikerl
    • Georg FriedrichAngetrunkener Freund von Vikerl
    • Claudia MartiniDie geschiedene Frau und Freundin des Masseurs
    • Victor RathboneDer geschiedene Mann
    • Gerti LehnerHaushälterin des Alten Mannes
    • Erich FinschesAlter Mann

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      Be forewarned: Dog Days, like many of Seidel's films, will drive some moviegoers to rage and walkouts with its unrelentingly depressing tone. But it also a remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker.
    • 90

      Variety

      An acid portrait of contemporary Austria (and by extension, the whole middle class) as unspeakably dull, violent and stupid. The film itself, miraculously, is just the opposite: vibrantly inventive, aesthetically rigorous, sardonic and occasionally quite brilliant.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      The believability comes from the casting: he has found a group of actors and nonprofessionals who interact spectacularly well.
    • 75

      New York Post

      Dog Days has much in common with "Code Unknown" -- both dart among several characters who may occasionally cross paths.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      His (Seidl) camera is shocking in its intimacy, his film surprisingly casual in its depiction of extreme behavior and the randomness of violence.
    • 70

      TV Guide Magazine

      Looks very much like a documentary: It's grainy and raw, and Seidl's actors -- a mix of actors and non-professionals -- are often unglamorously posed under what appears to be natural light.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Willfully provocative, much like a small child performing outrageous acts just to get some attention.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Dog Days adheres dogmatically to the school of sado-miserablism that Seidl's compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner have turned into something of a national industry (non-Austrian adherents abound too, from Gaspar Noé to Harmony Korine).

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