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Heart of a Dog

2015 · 75 min

A quiet, drifting meditation on loss that washes over you like a dream, tender and strange, asking patience and giving back ache.

Tagline: What do you see when you close your eyes?
Overview: Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, death, memory, love
Content: Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
death
memory
love
isolation
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none