Stuff
Simply the most astonishing, moving, engrossing and beautiful film I've seen in months.
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Gunda
Shot in black-and-white and devoid of words and music, this atypical cinematic documentary experience centres on the life of a pig and her friends—two cows and a one-legged chicken.
2021Rating: G93 minsNorway, USA
Documentary
- Director:
- Viktor Kossakovsky
Gunda / Reviews
Sydney Morning Herald
The film is ultimately about bigger issues... but Kossakovsky has found a brilliant, emotional and daring way into those concerns.
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Variety
Kossakovsky isn't out to lecture or confront his audience with moral rhetoric or shock imagery, but to encourage understanding of farm animal life as it's being lived - not just valuable at the point of death.
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Slant Magazine
By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we've been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.
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Vox
There's no dialogue; we just watch the animals go about their lives while we experience the quietly dawning recognition that these animals have real lives.
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Wall Street Journal
Pigs are smart... An improbably beautiful work of barnyard art, Gunda figures that we're smart too.
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