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Dog Days

2001 · 122 min

A sweltering, uncomfortable mosaic of suburban lives that feels voyeuristic and quietly desperate, with moments of absurdity.

Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Overview
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

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Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 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
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • grief
  • obsession
  • fate
Places
  • suburbs
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour4
Realism9
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Written by
Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Starring
Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Franziska Weisz, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich, Claudia Martini, Victor Rathbone
Music
Marcus Davy
Cinematography
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Runtime
122 min
Country
Austria, Germany
Languages
German

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