Musician, performance artist and all-round multimedia sensation Laurie Anderson directs this cinematic essay on love that starts with the death...
Musician, performance artist and all-round multimedia sensation Laurie Anderson directs this cinematic essay on love that starts with the death of her dog Lolabelle.
"In this poetic and personal meditation on love, grief, and language, pioneering Illinois-born musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on a range of topics, from post-9/11 fears and privacy issues to the death of her beloved dog, Lolabelle, whom she taught to play the piano. Like all of Anderson’s art, Heart of a Dog is a funny, political, and profound multi-layered experience." (Chicago Film Festival)
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"Its roving, free-associative structure brings together all manner of richly eccentric musings on the evasions of memory, the limitations of language and storytelling, the strangeness of life in a post-9/11 surveillance state, and the difficulty and necessity of coming to terms with death."
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Variety
Variety"In combining video, surveillance footage and her own 8mm family memories, Heart of a Dog quickly accesses a realm of ideas that vault it far higher than mere sentiment would allow."
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Time Out
Time Out"Heart of a Dog hints that the very language on which Anderson has built her career as a performance artist is finally inadequate in the face of mortality."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"Heart of a Dog is about telling and remembering and forgetting, and how we put together the fragments that make up our lives..."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"From a sensory point of view, the film is a pleasure, the images having been manipulated in various ways to evocative effect, Anderson’s voiceovers proving more amusing than not, and the music taking mostly lively turns."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterHeart of a Dog | Details
Award winner- Lina Mangiacapre Award winner at Venice Film Festival 2015
- Rating
- PG, Mild themes
- Runtime
- 75
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- France, USA
