The Curb’s review published on Letterboxd:
Review by Andrew F Peirce
One of the best performances of 2015 comes from Luke and Bodie – mixed breed dog brothers – playing Hagen in Kornél Mundruczó’s White God. Owned by Lili (Zsófia Psotta), Hagen finds himself on the streets of Hungary after a series of events. It’s this sudden abandonment that provides the narrative thrust for White God – a film that looks at how man’s best friend is treated in the world and how they could react.
Going into White God, and knowing that there was a lot of dogs involved with the film, I was afraid that it would go the Amores Perros route and have real dog fighting and abuse in the film. Fortunately, thanks to some of the best canine acting in the film, it’s not the case. In fact, supplant the dogs in this film with a slave or a refugee, or an abused wife, and you can see that this story has been told many times before – just this time we’re looking at it from dogs perspective. What’s most interesting is that this is a look at the different ways that dogs are owned and controlled – with added nods to how people as well are ‘controlled’ by those higher up than them.
Read the full review via The Curb here: