A film whose take on the early months of the Space Race has surely never occurred to another filmmaker, Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's Space Dogs introduces itself as a look at the present-day reincarnations of Laika, the canine astronaut whose life was sacrificed by the Soviet space program in 1957.
Excellently photographed and occasionally helped by a sober, evocative voiceover, the film proves something of a ruse — using its space-faring conceit mostly as an excuse to spend most of an hour and a half following a pack of indifferent street mutts around silently.
Dog-lovers are the obvious target here (note the disclaimer below, though); but the slow, meditative doc holds appeal for some of the rest of us as well.
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