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Gunda

Fri, Aug 13 / 7pm
Sat, Aug 13 / 5:05pm
Sun, Aug 15 / 3pm
Tue, Aug 17 / 7pm
Fri, Aug 20 / 9:45pm
Sat, Aug 21 / 5:45pm
Sun, Aug 22 / 5pm
Wed, Aug 25 / 7pm
Directed by Viktor Kossakovsky
2021, Norway/USA/UK, 93 min

Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic Aquarela, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in Gunda, master filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral universe, reminding us of the inherent value of life and the mystery of all animal consciousness, including our own.

Reviews

Gunda is pure cinema. This is a film to take a bath in - it’s stripped to its essential elements, without any interference. It’s what we should all aspire to as filmmakers and audiences - pictures and sound put together to tell a powerful and profound story without rush. It’s jaw dropping images and sound put together with the best ensemble cast and you have something more like a potion than a movie.
- Paul Thomas Anderson, filmmaker
you don’t have to be an animal lover to appreciate the craft and the genuine poetic vision of a film which, though strictly unsentimental, is intensely moving, transfixing and quite genuinely unique.
– Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
Gunda – which doubles as the name of the movie and the name of the pig – is as close as we may ever come to experiencing the world as animals do, specifically the animals that become our food.
– Ty Burr, Boston Chronicle
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