White Dog (2022)
- Original title
- Chien blanc
- Directed by
- Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A white couple adopts a stray dog, then discovers it was trained to attack Black people. They hire a Black trainer to try to undo the dog's conditioning, forcing them to confront their own complicity in racism.
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What happens
White Dog (French: Chien blanc) is a 2022 Canadian drama film directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette. Adapted from Romain Gary's autobiographical novel White Dog, the film stars Denis Ménochet as Gary and Kacey Rohl as his wife Jean Seberg, and centres on their adoption of an abandoned dog whom they learn to their horror had been trained to attack Black people on sight, leading them to send him to Keys (K. C. Collins), a Black dog trainer, for retraining. It is the second film adaptation of Gary's book, following the 1982 American film. Unlike the first film adaptation, in which director Samuel Fuller entirely wrote out the character of Gary, replaced Seberg with a younger fictional actress and recast the story as a horror film centred on the dog itself, Barbeau-Lavalette remained more faithful to the original book. Additionally, given the context of a film centred on the responses of white characters to anti-Black racism based on a decades-old book, she hired Black filmmakers Maryse Legagneur and Will Prosper as script consultants to ensure that the screenplay was respectful and sensitive to Black perspectives. The film premiered on November 2, 2022, as the opening film of the Cinemania film festival, and opened in commercial release on November 9. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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