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The latest provocation from Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness), one of independent film’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, Wiener-Dog tells several stories of outsiders who find their lives impacted in some way by their ownership of a single dachshund. Passing between, among others, a young boy forced to learn some unusual life lessons, a compassionate veterinary tech (Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha) who reconnects with an old crush, and a beaten-down film professor (Danny DeVito, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Wiener-Dog resembles nothing so much as a blackly comedic reimagining of 1960s French masterpiece Au hazard Balthazar. Of course, Solondz being Solondz, the director adds one of the most stomach-churning set-pieces in the history of film-art—one that he scores to Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”—to this highly esteemed source of inspiration.
Director Todd Solondz 2016 United States 90 minutes R (language and some disturbing content) DCP
