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Gunda
Directed by
Viktor Kossakovsky
2021
1h 33m
PG
Documentary
7.1
98%
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Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
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RogerEbert.com
Carlos Aguilar
A cinematic triumph of porcine poetry.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
"Gunda" ultimately falls somewhere between banal and profound. Maybe it's both. Kossokovsky... has grounded the nature film in a new movie terrain that for all its restraint, oozes empathy.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Peter Rainer
What it does express, in the most unadorned and ultimately affecting of ways, is the sentience of these creatures.
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
Gunda personalizes these animals without humanizing them, and evacuates explicit humanity without ignoring its clear impact.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Strauss
You'll feel like you're making new best friends when you watch "Gunda." It's as pure a farmyard experience as a movie can conceivably be.
Observer
Siddhant Adlakha
Gunda may not technically be a silent film, but its expression through movement functions much the same way, with our minds filling in experiential gaps to create something that feels narratively whole.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Completely aside from its backstory and dietary moral, it is a piece of wondrously immersive filmmaking that invites us to slow down and consider life at its most elemental and - though this may sound corny in reference to a farm animal - humane.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Kossakovsky's mesmerizing, gorgeous documentary about the life of a mother pig and her babies on an unnamed farm somewhere in the world serves as a bracing corrective to the way animals are usually portrayed on film.
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Melissa Anderson
While Gunda exhibits tremendous empathy, it does not indulge in anthropomorphism or court sentimental responses. To further preempt such mawkishness, Kossakovsky shot it in b/w. The pink body of a piglet is thus less likely to elicit awwww than awe.
Los Angeles Times
Jessica Kiang
Beyond its value as a meditation on animal captivity and cruelty... this is a film that pays attention to things we've long neglected and to in-between interludes we have forgotten how to see.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Angie Han
It's a film that requires a lot of patience, but if you can get under it's spell then it has a hypnotic quality.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
Few films capture the intense, sticky bond between a mother and her offspring so simply and wrenchingly, without remark, or convey the knowledge that we carnivores are devouring souls with every bite of bacon.
Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
A landmark film from a bracingly original filmmaker.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Pigs are smart... An improbably beautiful work of barnyard art, Gunda figures that we're smart too.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
There's no dialogue; we just watch the animals go about their lives while we experience the quietly dawning recognition that these animals have real lives.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we've been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
"Gunda" may be a meditational slow-burn, but as it unfurls its immersive audiovisual tapestry it hovers between non-fiction observation and lyrical insight, and to that end feels like an advancement of the nature documentary form.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Sublimely beautiful and profoundly moving, it offers you the opportunity to look - at animals, yes, but also at qualities that are often subordinated in narratively driven movies, at textures, shapes and light.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The message comes through loud and painfully clear, no dubbed voices required.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Kossakovsky isn't out to lecture or confront his audience with moral rhetoric or shock imagery, but to encourage understanding of farm animal life as it's being lived - not just valuable at the point of death.
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