It was a risky move to watch a French movie on a Friday night after dinner as the risk of dozing off was very high if the movie sucks in any way. My better half and I didn't expect much and were ready to stop watching it if it started to suck in any way big or small. There are so many things to watch or read, so no time to waste on subpar movies. We ended up loving My dog Stupid a lot and was engaged by the storytelling. I think tragicomedy is a good way to call the movie.
Won't spoil the movie plots for you but say that the movie is based on a short story/novella by American novelist John Fante (side note: Charles Bukowski loved him and kinda rediscovered him) published posthumously that drew lots of inspiration from his own life. A novella reviewer wrote that Fante showed _a great sense of self-mockery and self-evaluation_ in the novella and I would add the movie showed us the same.
I feel this movie got an unfair 6.2 average rating so I gave it a 10. Mind you, I don't often took the effort to find review of book/short story/novella of which a movie is based from. Just to learn more about the movie itself. So I do love the movie. A 10 movie.
Won't spoil the movie plots for you but say that the movie is based on a short story/novella by American novelist John Fante (side note: Charles Bukowski loved him and kinda rediscovered him) published posthumously that drew lots of inspiration from his own life. A novella reviewer wrote that Fante showed _a great sense of self-mockery and self-evaluation_ in the novella and I would add the movie showed us the same.
I feel this movie got an unfair 6.2 average rating so I gave it a 10. Mind you, I don't often took the effort to find review of book/short story/novella of which a movie is based from. Just to learn more about the movie itself. So I do love the movie. A 10 movie.