Dogman (2018)
Cannes Palme d'Or-nominated revenge drama set on Rome’s crime-ridden outskirts, inspired by a homicide committed by a coked-out dog groomer during the late 1980s. Four-time Palme d'Or nominee Matteo Garrone co-writes and directs.
"Drawing on a true-crime story that fascinated Italy in the 1980s, Matteo Garrone's Dogman centres on Marcello (Marcello Fonte, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes), a devoted single father who scrapes out a living by grooming dogs, and selling cocaine on the side. His best customer, Simoncino (Edoardo Pesce), is a hulking former boxer who deploys brutal violence when confronted by any situation he doesn’t like. Marcello’s mild manners and logic have an oddly taming effect on the bullish Simoncino, until their tentative friendship is suddenly hurled into an unexpected (and bloody) direction."
- Director:
- Matteo Garrone ('Gomorrah', 'Reality', 'The Embalmer')
- Writer:
- Ugo ChitiMassimo GaudiosoMatteo Garrone
- Cast:
- Marcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoAdamo DionisiFrancesco AcquaroliAlida Baldari CalabriaGianluca GobbiAniello Arena
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressI might have bought what he's doing in a different film, but the one that Garrone has made strains too hard to have it both ways.
Time Out
pressThe overall feel is of the kind of Aesop's fable Scorsese would tell his kids.
The Times
pressIt's a strange and sad piece of work, beautifully played by its central odd couple, that will linger in your memory like a howl on the wind.
Hollywood Reporter
pressA teeth-chattering culmination of Matteo Garrone's darkest themes.
Empire Magazine
pressGarrone proves once again that even the lowest-rung southern Italian gangster can't afford a shred of human decency.
Variety
pressI might have bought what he's doing in a different film, but the one that Garrone has made strains too hard to have it both ways.
Time Out
pressThe overall feel is of the kind of Aesop's fable Scorsese would tell his kids.
The Times
pressIt's a strange and sad piece of work, beautifully played by its central odd couple, that will linger in your memory like a howl on the wind.
Hollywood Reporter
pressA teeth-chattering culmination of Matteo Garrone's darkest themes.
Empire Magazine
pressGarrone proves once again that even the lowest-rung southern Italian gangster can't afford a shred of human decency.
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