[Note: In the wake ofthe Tribeca festival's cancellation this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] There are close-ups, and then there are close-ups — frame-filling, heart-stopping glimpses of a soul.
In the brief but stirring Stray, those glimpsed souls belong to dogs who live on the streets of a major city. The faces are magnificent, but not in a best-in-show way; they're the weathered (or ultra-young) mugs of characters whose backstories we'll never know, and whose every move and glance suggests volumes.
Comparisons to Kedi are inevitable for Stray. Like that 2017 documentary, Elizabeth Lo's affecting debut explores the urban wildlife of Istanbul.
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