This hilarious film alternates three kinds of material: footage of barking dogs, shots of streets and other locations, and a ludicrously overdetermined melodramatic story, illustrated chiefly by a series of stills (and occasionally by shots in motion) and narrated off-screen. The net result of its combined strategies is to reveal melodrama itself as a pure formal mechanism, with characters and plot reduced to the status of necessary props. Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1977
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 22'
- Medium
- 35mm
- International title
- Dog's Dialogue
- Language
- English
- Screenplay
- Raúl Ruiz
- Editor
- Valeria Sarmiento
- Cast
- Hugo Santiago