
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyStylistically void, intellectually vapid, narratively coarse, and exploitative of its actors in the worst possible way, the film is an abject failure on every level. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannHis (Seidl) camera is shocking in its intimacy, his film surprisingly casual in its depiction of extreme behavior and the randomness of violence. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyDark, probing, and truly disturbing, Seidl's astonishing feature debut explores angst, anomie, and alientaion in Vienna's upscale suburbs in visually audacious mode that goes beyond Todd Solondz and Todd Haynes. |
| Chicago ReaderRichard PortonSeidl's talent for satirical invective is neutralized by his weakness for over-the-top narrative pyrotechnics-this is more warmed-over Quentin Tarantino than Georg Grosz. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyDirector Ulrich Seidl presents a mean spirited satire of Austrian suburbia in this ugly movie that is quite possibly the worst film (foreign or domestic) of 2003. |
| Houston ChronicleEric HarrisonOddly compelling, disturbing -- some might say disturbed -- look at suburban life, Austrian style. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoDog Days has much in common with "Code Unknown" -- both dart among several characters who may occasionally cross paths. |
| Slant MagazineJeremiah KippThe voyeurs in the film respond with predictable repulsion and sarcasm to Seidl's lower middle-class cartoons. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasDog 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. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWillfully provocative, much like a small child performing outrageous acts just to get some attention. |