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My Dog Stupid

2019 · 106 min

A wry, bittersweet midlife comedy about a scruffy dog and a stalled writer, warm and gently absurd.

Directed by: Yvan Attal
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf

Tagline: You Don't Choose Your Family, Or Your Dog.
Overview: Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.

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Directed by: Yvan Attal
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
identity
aging
isolation
healing
Places: home
suburbs
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Yvan Attal
Written by: Dean Craig, Yvan Attal, Yaël Langmann
Starring: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf, Pascale Arbillot, Ben Attal, Adèle Wismes, Pablo Venzal, Panayotis Pascot
Music: Brad Mehldau
Cinematography: Rémy Chevrin
Runtime: 106 min
Country: Belgium, France
Languages: French

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