'Heart of a Dog' is a confounding, transfixing m茅lange
'Heart' is directed by Laurie Anderson and centers on her late, beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle.聽The film is really a meditation on death and the ways in which we come to terms with it.聽
'Heart' is directed by Laurie Anderson and centers on her late, beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle.聽The film is really a meditation on death and the ways in which we come to terms with it.聽
Laurie Anderson, the great performance artist, musician, storyteller, video memoirist 鈥� the list goes on 鈥� has made a one-of-a-kind movie, 鈥淗eart of a Dog,鈥� that centers on her late, beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle. Lest this sound coy or cutesy, rest assured results are never that. The film is really a meditation on death and the ways in which we come to terms with it. (Anderson鈥檚 husband, Lou Reed, and her mother both died within a few years of Lolabelle.)
Anderson works in animation and home movies (Lolabelle 鈥減laying鈥� the piano is a wonder), and Anderson鈥檚 voice-over narration is closer in quality to song than to spoken word. It鈥檚 a confounding, transfixing m茅lange. Grade: A- (This film is not rated.)