Wiener-Dog

About the movie

Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughter—all longing for something more.
From the master of dark humor, Wiener-Dog is vintage Solondz, brimming with brilliantly caustic and truthful observations. Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 to great reviews.
“Mordantly funny, but most importantly, poignant” – The Guardian (++++)
“Hilarious and gloomy at the same time” – IndieWIRE (A-)
“A relentlessly clever film” – Screen International

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