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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m

Summary A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samp...

Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai

Written By: Peng Fei Song, Cheng-Yu Tung, Ming-liang Tsai

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m

Stray Dogs

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
84
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samp...

Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai

Written By: Peng Fei Song, Cheng-Yu Tung, Ming-liang Tsai

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
84
86% Positive
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
84
86% Positive
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Aug 24, 2014
Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 16, 2013
Every shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 10, 2014
The plight of this struggling family unit weighs more heavily on the heart with each passing minute, making Stray Dogs the rare marathon-length art film that seems to grow less oppressive the longer it goes on.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 9, 2014
Stray Dogs evokes the whole of Tsai’s filmography, but also pays off his collaboration with Lee, who shows a side of himself that’s been hidden away for all these years.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 9, 2014
The lengthy final two shots (each running more than ten minutes) rank among the best work this inimitable artist has ever done.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 9, 2014
An extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money).
By Danny King FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 16, 2013
Tsai here seems to be stripping his ornately eccentric style down to formal fundamentals. A certain pictorial grace remains; his sense of humor, sadly, appears to have been largely tossed out with the bathwater.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW

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5.8
46% Positive
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31% Mixed
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23% Negative
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46% Positive
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31% Mixed
4 Ratings
23% Negative
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Production Company Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA), Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image, Homegreen Films, House on Fire, JBA Production, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Taipei City Government, Taipei Film Commission, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, Urban Distribution International
Release Date Sep 12, 2014
Duration 2 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website http://www.moviola.jp/jiaoyou/
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Awards

Asia-Pacific Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 4 Nominations

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