MY DOG STUPID (2019) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Yvan Attal
Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf,
Pascale Arbilot, Ben Attal, Adèle Wismes,
Pablo Vanzel, Panayotis Pascot, Oscar Copp
A very large and horny dog saunters into a house through an open door, plops himself down on the couch and decides to stay. The family living there - a middle-aged couple and their four grown children - reluctantly take the animal in, just as their domestic situation starts to fall apart. Dad (Yvan Attal) is a novelist with a severe case of writer's block. Mom (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is trying to blot out a life of suffocating boredom with tranquilizers and alcohol. The kids - a daughter and three sons - all have issues of their own. The dog turns out to be a supporting player - he provides comic relief - and the movie maintains a precarious balance between sitcom and psychodrama. Yvan and Charlotte are enough to make you want to stick around. Ben Attal, who plays the anarchist intellectual Raphe, is their real-life son.
