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Heart of a Dog
2015 | France, USA | NR | 75 min.
Love, loss, and the powerful bond between
humans and dogs are at the heart of Laurie
Anderson’s spellbinding autobiographical documentary.
Inventively moving between surreal
animation, ethereal footage, and abstract imagery,
“Heart of a Dog” is a home movie of sorts—if
home movies were crafted of songs, dreams,
and memories. Anderson’s masterful storytelling
skills are exquisitely deployed as she contemplates
life in post-9/11 New York and the
deaths of her beloved piano-playing rat terrier
Lolabelle, the mother who showed her love only
once in her life, and her late husband Lou Reed,
who surfaces fleetingly, like a ghost. Featuring
music composed by both Anderson and Reed,
this impressionistic meditation on love, memory,
language, and loss is lyrically and wholly human.
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