My Life As A Dog - Celebrating Virgo Season with Robby & Kurt Vonnegut's Favorite Film
We argue that "My Life as a Dog" gets sold as the gentlest movie ever made when it's actually a devastating study of a kid coping with his mother's death by barking like a Soviet space dog no one bothered to bring home — and the trick is that it hides the wreckage in something that looks, on the surface, like whimsy.
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We celebrate Virgo season with Robby's favorite film — My Life as a Dog (1985), directed by Lasse Hallström and adapted from Reidar Jönsson's novel, on The Arc (thearc.fm). With cinematography by Jörgen Persson and a breakout performance by Anton Glanzelius, the…
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