| The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet | |||||||
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| Director: | Ana Katz | ||||||
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| Editing: | Andrés Tambornino | ||||||
| Production Companies: | Laura Cine - Oh my Gómez! | ||||||
| Distributor: | Luxbox | ||||||
| Runtime: | 73 minutes | ||||||
| Country: | Argentina | ||||||
| Language: | Spanish | ||||||
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (Spanish; Castilian: El perro que no calla) is a 2021 Argentine absurdist drama film directed by Ana Katz and written by Gonzalo Delgado with Katz. The film stars Daniel Katz, Julieta Zylberberg, Valeria Lois, Mirella Pascual and Carlos Portaluppi.[1]
The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021.
Sebas, an illustrator approaching middle age, experiences a number of bittersweet life changes inspired by absurd events, including a silent dog inexplicably judged by neighbors and co-workers to be deafening, and the arrival of a meteor that permanently poisons all of Earth's atmosphere above four feet off the ground.
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The film had its premiere in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section.[3]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 29 as positive and 0 as negative for a 100% rating. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 7.3 out of 10.[4]
It won the VPRO Big Screen Award at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam,[5] and the Havana Star Prize for Best Screenplay at the 21st Havana Film Festival New York.[6]