Eddie Peng

Tong Liya

Jia Zhangke

Zhou You

Zhang Yi

Yuan Hong

Hu Xiaoguang

Wang Yiquan

Niu Ben

Vision Wei

Zhao Yi

Zhang Jianya

Zhang Yang

Wang Yanhui

Sha Baoliang

Yin Yuanzhang

Zhang Li

Motu Hongzhe

Wu You

Da Youwei

Chubu Huajie

Wang Naixun

Qiang Gao

Li Jiuxiao

Liang Jing

Huang Miyi

Guan Hu

Ge Rui

Wu Bing

Zhonglei Wang

Justine O

Wang Donghui

Fu Kang

Tingxiao Huo

Yu Fei

Breton Vivian

Matthieu Laclau

He Yongyi

Zhu Wenjiu

Yang Hong

Zhou Li

Weizhe Gao

Sun Zhonghuai

Yu Dong

Li Jie

Xiaojie Fu

Huang Hai

Drama

狗阵

Huayi Brothers Pictures

陌陌影业有限公司

Bona Film Group

The Seventh Art Pictures

Tencent Penguin Pictures

Tao Piao Piao

China

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Black Dog

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"Lang" (Eddie Peng) has returned to his hometown after a term in prison. We learn a little more about the causes of that and of his distant relationship with his zoo-keeping father as the story develops, as well as discovering that he once was one of the place's more famous citizens being in a popular local band. With the Beijing Olympiad (2008) looming large, there is quite an emphasis for the government on tarting the place up - and that signals quite significant "improvements" for their home on the edge of the Gobi desert. Much of it has already been earmarked for demolition, and with most of the heart (and soul) of the place already removed, the authorities turn their attention to the serious problem of hundreds of feral dogs marauding around potentially spreading rabies. There is one particularly skinny black one that is worth 1000 Yuan if it can be caught, and that's the target for the motor-cycling "Lang". Thing is, this mutt is no mug, and is soon doing more of the chasing (and biting). One particularly embarrassing nibble sees both confined to his home in quarantine and that's when the bonds begin to become established and we also realise the extent of hostility felt by some to this man. With the bulldozers never far away, his ailing dad's zoo no longer able to care for it's tenants and the vengeful butcher "Hu" (Hu Xiaoguang) and his thugs out for revenge, we settle into a tale of this newfound friendship that's quite engaging. It's predictable in stages, but it's really the largely dialogue-free effort from Peng set against a backdrop of relentless winds, dust and trains rolling through the increasingly lifeless town that gives this a bit of potency. It's not so much that the town is being cleared because of the Olympics, though that's clearly on director Hu Guan's mind, it's that why was a town ever here in this inhospitable place in the place? It's bleak and forlorn, a concrete oasis in the middle of nowhere and that setting works well as the man himself comes across as lonely, detached as well as emotionally and physically rootless. It's a slow watch, but not one that drags, for two hours and it rather effectively sums up an existence of mundanity, lack of opportunity and a desire for a true sense of freedom quite well. Be warned, not a great deal happens - but I did enjoy it.

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Black Dog

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