White God
Fehér isten
Synopsis
Favoring pedigree dogs, a new law puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. Lili, 13, fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually dumps the dog. Hagen joins a gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound.
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
2014 | 2 wins including: Palm Dog
European Film Awards
2015 | Nominee: Audience Award
After making a few little-seen, little-appreciated art films (including “Delta” and “Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project”), Hungarian auteur Kornel Mundruczo delivered a work of hard-hitting provocation and startling violence that suggested we may have a new (ahem) Peckinpaw on our hands.
Justin Chang
July 02, 2015
Immediately after seeing Kornél Mundruczó’s Budapest-set canine rebellion picture White God, I thought that I had merely seen a bad movie, though in the days afterwards it occurred to me that perhaps a sly political metaphor was at work in the film, and my opinion began to shift. To wit, I am now convinced that it is an utter and complete piece of irredeemable, self-important feculence.
Nick Pinkerton
March 27, 2015
Although the simple plot is articulated with great clarity, this is mainly a film of moments. And what moments! Mundruczó’s and his cinematographer Marcell Rev shoot Lili and Hagen’s story with a documentary-like immediacy, following much of the action with a handheld widescreen camera that’s often placed at ground level, the better to show harsh urban landscapes through a dog’s eyes.
Matt Zoller Seitz
March 27, 2015
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