In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lives while their lifelines cross from time to time.
What some detect as cruelty in Dog Days is in fact a bleak but deeply felt humanism -- a yearning that we might all learn to better love our neighbors and, perhaps more importantly, ourselves.
– Scott Foundas,
L.A. Weekly,
8 Jan 2004
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Strangely entertaining.
– Manohla Dargis,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan 2004
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Oddly compelling, disturbing -- some might say disturbed -- look at suburban life, Austrian style.
– Eric Harrison,
Houston Chronicle,
29 Jan 2004
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A remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker.