Dog's Dialogue

Dog's Dialogue (1987)

Colloque de chiens

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Date of release
1987-11-13
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (30)
Runtime
22m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Raúl Ruiz

Casting

Interesting facts

Dog's Dialogue is a 1977 French surrealist short crime film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. The film contains popular conventions of the photo-romance but also can be viewed as a parody of the Brazilian telenovela or melodrama and pop culture stereotypes.

Production

Dog's Dialogue utilized 35mm film in color and had a 22-minute runtime. It was made in-between two films Ruiz made with Pierre Klossowski, The Suspended Vocation and The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978). There was an actor's strike during the making of The Suspended Vocation, which put a pause on the production and allowed Ruiz the time to make Dog's Dialogue.

Ruiz uses the tools of repetition and representation in this film to give the images significance and life. The narrative repeats many key lines and gestures at different points in the story and for different characters. The plot seems to circulate; repeating itself just under different circumstances. As the film develops it focuses more on stereotypical gestures and creates discrepancies between what is being seen and what is being heard.

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