This past summer has seen the usual glut of cute-animal movies, so it may reassure zoophobic readers to know that, in Austria, they do things somewhat differently. Or they do if this controversial new documentary by Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl is anything to go by.
Tierische Liebe (Animal Love), which opened the Salzburg Diagonale, the annual shop-window for Austrian films, last December and was released commercially in Austria at the beginning of February, portrays a series of relationships between pets and their owners which go way beyond cute and stop just short of the unshowable, as the film's pet-lovers project their loneliness and their need for physical affection on to their (apparently) willing pooches, not to mention their cats and their rats.
Even the trailer for the film has caused problems in Seidl's native country, with one Austrian cinema chain banning it entirely because of a scene in which a man is shown kissing a dog.
Prod co: Lotus Film
Prod: Erich Lackner.
Dir/Guión (Scr): Ulrich Seidl
Foto (Ph): Michael Glawogger, Hans Selikowksy, Peter Zeitlinger
Ints (Cast): Hubert Scholtz, Ernst Schönmann, Franz Holzschuh, Erich Wegerer, Fritz Schmied
Ventas (Sales): Lotus Film
Duración (Running time): 110 mins
PROGRAMACION (Screening): 16.30, 19 Sept, Principal; 16.15, 20 Sept, Astoria, 1; 21.00, 20 Sept, Principe, 4
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