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Stray Dogs
Directed by
Tsai Ming-liang
Not Rated
2013
2h 18m
Drama
6.9
86%
52%
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An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
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Cast of Stray Dogs
Lee Kang-sheng
Father / Producer
Lu Yi-ching
Woman
Chen Shiang-Chyi
Woman
Yang Kuei-mei
Woman
Lee Yi-cheng
Yi-Cheng
Lee Yi-Chieh
Yi-Chieh
Wu Jin-Kai
Wang
Tsai Ming-liang
Director / Writer
Chen Yu Tung
Writer
Song Peng Fei
Writer
Stray Dogs Ratings & Reviews
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
If the first two-thirds offer more or less what you'd expect from a Tsai film, Stray Dogs shifts (through an appropriately dramatic thunderstorm) into dark fairy tale mode, with an intangibly creepy charge.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Patience is not only a respected virtue, but with slow cinema such as this, it is also a mandatory implement for emotional and thematic decryption that promises to yield treasures of immense cinematic wealth.
Unseen Films
Nathanael Hood
Even as a defender of Ming-liang's work, I find nothing in Stray Dogs to redeem its ludicrous pretentiousness.
Way Too Indie
C.J. Prince
It might not be the best entry point for Tsai's films, but anyone willing to embrace the style will be in for one of Tsai's best (and, sadly, possibly last) works as a director.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
Taiwanese out gay director Tsai Ming-liang's "Stray Dogs" has a monumental quality that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible and heard on the best sound system available.
The Film Stage
Nick Newman
If this, truly, is Tsai's send-off, Stray Dogs is a finish for the history books.
Critic's Notebook
Martin Tsai
This is perhaps the most political Mr. Tsai has ever gotten.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Tsai now makes films that transform the auditorium into a different kind of space, in which viewers become attentive, and self-consciously present, in a way they wouldn't be when occupying the exact same seats to watch, say, Let's Be Cops.
NPR
Tomas Hachard
In its most evocative moments offers images that will stick in your mind even longer than they stay on the screen.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
A mysterious and deliberately prolonged series of tableaus about the fragility of flesh and the smallness of humanity, among other things.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
[A] glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism ...
Village Voice
Danny King
An extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money).
Film Comment Magazine
Tony Rayns
Tsai may well be cinema's foremost connoisseur of defeat: the best chronicler we have of the temps mort between social reality and darkly comic dreams of despair.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions.
Film.com
Jake Cole
If this is Tsai Ming-Liang's last film, he's leaving the cinema farther along than he found it.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
It's just achingly sad, to the point where the walls themselves, streaked black from water damage and neglect, appear tear-stained.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Tsai's latest is small and human and primal-a howl from the gutter, and a survival story about life on the fringe, in which a family of four ekes out an existence one day and scavenged meal at a time.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
The director's austere minimalism has always been suspended between the mesmerizing and the distancing, and in his latest feature, the concentration on elliptical observation, mood and texture signals an almost complete rejection of narrative.
The Playlist
Oliver Lyttelton
If nothing else, you're left with a masterclass in directing, and a film that anyone who's serious about cinema needs to make the time to see.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Spends an inordinate amount of time watching its characters sleep onscreen - which is just as well, since unsuspecting viewers may spend an inordinate amount of time sleeping in front of it.
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