Heart of a Dog

2015 "What do you see when you close your eyes?"

Heart of a Dog

7 | 1h15m | NR | en | Documentary

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

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7 | 1h15m | NR | en | Documentary | More Info

Released: October. 21,2015 | Released Producted By: HBO Documentary Films , Canal Street Communications Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Julian Schnabel , Dustin Guy Defa , Lou Reed

Director

Laurie Anderson

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HBO Documentary Films , Canal Street Communications

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Cast

Julian Schnabel

as Painter

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Dustin Guy Defa

as Gordon Matta-Clark

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Lou Reed

as Doctor

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Reviews

aylaboo-628-882033 Straight into my soul, her voice, the imagery and the sheer poetry of the strength of love and loss and coming into being.... and leaving.

Karin de Visser Heart of a dog is one of the most moving and interesting art movies I have ever seen. The story seems to be about the rat terrier Lollabelle but when the story begins there is that absurd tale of Laurie giving birth to the dog after surgeons have implanted the dog in her uterus and when it ends you realize that is really about a mother/daughter relation. The poetry in the movie is beautiful and absurd as ever and the images are stunning. You get really drawn into the story. Like her mother said in her last words; "Take care of the animals". Laurie did take care of her animal.

ignominia-1 Heart of a Dog, a movie by Laurie Anderson is one of the most nourishing movies I have seen in a long while. I loved her drawings, the abstract and nostalgic imagery and mostly her storytelling voice. The film content - love, memory and mostly loss - filled a personal need for intensity that only few other art works, books, and movies, have been able to do. At times my emotions could barely stand absorbing what I could only call its beauty. Laurie should have just been a story teller, all the other trickery she has used through time distract from the real source of her art. Of course if the viewer expect a story about dogs, this is not the movie for them, but I can list HoaD to very few other movies that seem to be about nothing and they are about everything.

jessytelly I dvr'd this based on HBO's description, "Laurie Anderson reflects on the passing of her mother, her husband (Lou Reed) and her dog" What I saw was one minute of reflection about her mother in the beginning and one minute at the end. There was absolutely ZERO reflection about Lou unless you want to count the one grainy picture of him during the movie, or the picture of him and the song of his during the end credits. The dog was well represented and saw significant screen time in the film and was obviously more loved than the mother or husband.Ms Anderson even stated that she did not love her mother during the film.I was very interested to hear her feelings on her husbands passing and got absolutely nothing. She really should have just made the movie entirely about the dog.