Heart Of A Dog (2016, USA) 77 mins, cert.PG

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Screenings at 2.30 and 7.30 pm

Director: Laurie Anderson
Stars: Archie, Jason Berg, Heung-Heung Chin
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Documentary film-maker, artist and musician Laurie Anderson provides a gentle voice-over for her own film. She sensitively describes her feelings about love and death concerning past relationship with her beloved (and tuneful!) rat terrier Lolabelle, the loss of husband (Lou Reed) and her mother.

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Made nearly thirty years after her concert film Home of the Brave, Heart of a Dog has a dream-like quality and combines a poetic, thoughtful, sometimes humorous, but always very personal view of impermanence, loss – and love…

 

 

The Guardian review (includes a link to the official (US) trailer, while a wider discusion of the role of dogs in film can be found here

 

the Trailer on its own is below:

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David Lean Cinema, Croydon on Thursday 4th August 2016

Shows start at 2.30PM or 7.30PM, Ticket prices: £8.00 & £6.50 (concessions)

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