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Big Animal
2000 73m Not Rated
Comedy
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Drama
7.1
95%
87%
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Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
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Directed By
Jerzy Stuhr
Written By
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Studio
TVP
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Cast of Big Animal
Jerzy Stuhr
Zygmunt Sawicki
Anna Dymna
Maria Sawicka
Dominika Bednarczyk
Bank Clerk
Błażej Wójcik
Bank Clerk
Andrzej Franczyk
Bank Manager
Feliks Szajnert
Drunkard
Zbigniew Kaleta
Photographer
Andrzej Kozak
Big Animal Reviews
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Adapted from a script written in the 1970's by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr's film is a small, charming fable about individual idiosyncrasy and social uniformity.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
A delightful satire from Poland.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is whimsical, bittersweet, wise in a minor key.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's a ludicrous yet haunting fable.
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Memorializes a complex man and his deceptively simple work, by a friend and colleague in a fitting tribute.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
Delightfully poetic for all of its ironic and allegorical subtleties.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Beyond its initial one-joke concept and heavy-handed allegory, The Big Animal doesn't have much to say, and even at 72 minutes it seems a bit padded out.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
Indeed, in this harsh world, it's not so easy to have a camel.
Boston Herald
Paul Sherman
A timeless tale that shows no signs of its script's age.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
A gentle, witty parable of the mixed feelings some people show toward free choice when it confronts them not in theory but in everyday life.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Stuhr's directing seems ambiguous on how to handle its rich findings.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
This film is a natural for tweens and teens, like The Yearling or the British film Ring of Bright Water.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
In its own modest way, Stuhr's film is nearly perfect.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The tale's faux-fable simplicity is cunningly eloquent, and the visions of the great desert animal thrusting his head through a window during dinnertime, or drowsily strolling the streets on a leash, are hauntingly absurd.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
Gently charming.
Film Journal International
Gabriel Cohen DeVries
The crisp, elegant black-and-white cinematography by Academy Award nominee Pawel Edelman (The Pianist) is well-matched to the simplicity of the narrative.
Kansas City Star
Robert W. Butler
Rubio, a denizen of a Polish circus, is simply terrific as the unnamed creature, whose reactions to events around him are a quiet delight.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
The Big Animal unfolds rather like a fable of modern life, demonstrating how the small community's intolerance increases with the fervor of Zygmunt's unexplained devotion.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A simple, lovely little film that works as both a family movie and a parable about greed and jealousy and pettiness.
culturevulture.net
Arthur Lazere
Stuhr, blessed with an observant and witty script, keeps it all gossamer light; the foolishness is pointed and on the satirical mark, but angst-free.
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