Late into Bianca Lucas’ feature debut, a character ventures a few verses: “Listen to the moan of a dog for its master / That whining is the connection / There are love dogs no one knows the names of / Give your life to be one of them.” Lucas does not reveal the author; the character, Beck (Becca Begnaud), says she forgot who the words belong to. As a matter of fact, they’re the final lines of 13th-century Persian poet Rumi’s Love Dogs, the poem that lends this sorrowful meditation its title and cumulatively cathartic power. Like Rumi’s text, which unfurls as a plea to find meaning and solace in sadness, Love Dog follows a man trying to process and survive an unimaginable loss. It’s that rare film that manages to be both unbearably vivid in its depiction of grief and resolutely immune to misery porn. There are scenes...
- 5/1/2023
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Love Dog Review — Love Dog (2022) Film Review from the 75th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie directed by Bianca Lucas, written by Lucas and John Dicks, starring Dicks, Becca Begnaud, Brooke Keel Bullock, Tj Tarver, Corinne Bordelon, and Ernie Schaeffer. The saddest thing about life can be its own resilience. It keeps moving even when we [...]
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- 8/26/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
"You can't do the two-step?" Lights On has revealed an early promo trailer for a film titled Love Dog, an indie project that is the first narrative feature from Swiss filmmaker Bianca Lucas (also of Letters from the Ends of the World). It is premiering soon at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, hence the trailer to build some buzz. Here's the intro: After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his home town in Mississippi – where he will confront not only his own repressed grief and trauma, but also that of a society grieving dying American myths. John Dicks stars as John, who also co-wrote the script with Lucas. Also with Becca Begnaud, Tj Tarver, Corinne Bordelon, Brooke Keel Bullock, Ernie Schaeffer. Thankfully this film has a nice doggie in it, because you can't call your film "Love Dog" and not have a dog as...
- 7/22/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Bianca Lucas’ “Love Dog” has debuted its trailer ahead of its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival in Concorso Cineasti del Presente. Lights On has bought international sales rights.
The film centers on John who – after finishing a job on a Texas oil rig – returns to his home town in Mississippi, where he will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths.
In a statement, Lucas said: “‘Love Dog’ is about the personal and collective process of grief, repression of trauma, and their repercussions in our everyday lives. About the breakdown of a mythicized American identity, and the universal ways in which truth, love and reckoning might break generational cycles of violence and emotional pain. It is about mourning, and learning how to live and love – not just function – in the midst of our ghosts.”
The producers are Lucas and Joaquín del Paso...
The film centers on John who – after finishing a job on a Texas oil rig – returns to his home town in Mississippi, where he will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths.
In a statement, Lucas said: “‘Love Dog’ is about the personal and collective process of grief, repression of trauma, and their repercussions in our everyday lives. About the breakdown of a mythicized American identity, and the universal ways in which truth, love and reckoning might break generational cycles of violence and emotional pain. It is about mourning, and learning how to live and love – not just function – in the midst of our ghosts.”
The producers are Lucas and Joaquín del Paso...
- 7/21/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2022 edition, to be held from Aug. 3-13.
And the Swiss festival will be hoping Brad Pitt will be kicking some butt when Locarno gives an international festival premiere to Sony’s upcoming Bullet Train. The action thriller, set to hit theaters Aug. 5, comes from the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, and has an ensemble cast that includes Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Locarno also booked world premieres for the Sophie Marceau starrer Une Femme de Notre Temps, by director Jean Paul Civeyrac; Leon Prudovsky’s My Neighbor Adolf; John Swab’s horror thriller Candy Land; Blandine Lenoir’s Annie Colere; and Delta, by director Michele Vannucci. Debut features bowing at Locarno include Jeff Rutherford’s A Perfect Day for...
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2022 edition, to be held from Aug. 3-13.
And the Swiss festival will be hoping Brad Pitt will be kicking some butt when Locarno gives an international festival premiere to Sony’s upcoming Bullet Train. The action thriller, set to hit theaters Aug. 5, comes from the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, and has an ensemble cast that includes Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Locarno also booked world premieres for the Sophie Marceau starrer Une Femme de Notre Temps, by director Jean Paul Civeyrac; Leon Prudovsky’s My Neighbor Adolf; John Swab’s horror thriller Candy Land; Blandine Lenoir’s Annie Colere; and Delta, by director Michele Vannucci. Debut features bowing at Locarno include Jeff Rutherford’s A Perfect Day for...
- 7/6/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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