Araluen Arts Centre:
Black Dog
Mon
4
Mon 4 Nov 7:00 PM
Araluen Arts Centre
Wheelchair
General Admission
110 Mins
November
A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.
It’s 2008 and, far from the Beijing Olympics, Lang (Eddie Peng, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, MIFF 2022) returns from a stint in prison to the decaying hometown he hasn’t seen in years. There, he finds no-one is happy to welcome him back, and the arid settlement is about to be demolished to build large-scale factories. Haunted by the past and confronted with an uncertain future, Lang tries to get work as a ‘bounty hunter’ of stray dogs but ends up falling into an unlikely camaraderie with a rabid dog he’s forced to quarantine with.
It’s 2008 and, far from the Beijing Olympics, Lang (Eddie Peng, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, MIFF 2022) returns from a stint in prison to the decaying hometown he hasn’t seen in years. There, he finds no-one is happy to welcome him back, and the arid settlement is about to be demolished to build large-scale factories. Haunted by the past and confronted with an uncertain future, Lang tries to get work as a ‘bounty hunter’ of stray dogs but ends up falling into an unlikely camaraderie with a rabid dog he’s forced to quarantine with.