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Film reviews: Dog days
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Dog days (18) Filmhouse ***
ORIGINALITY is worth loads. You can almost forgive Ulrich Seidl
for making an unwatchable movie because it's so odd. Who else would
ask a 60-year-old woman to do a striptease? The question is, why?
Dog Days refers to the peak of summer, when heat hangs in air like
oven breath and you pray for autumn to refresh stagnant memory.
Equally, it could mean the embers of passion, dusty and chill, with
the body wrecked and nothing left but time.
This is Austria and these are people who have lost the ability to
dream. Spiritually, they have died and gone to the ...
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A Look Into the Dog Days of Summer
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Dog days already? Believe it
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; ...would seem that we are headed into the dog days of summer. I always thought that those...I felt like I wanted to call them the "dog days." But I didn't want to be incorrect, so...consulted the Google guru to find out when the dog days really occur. Turns out my inclination...
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`Dog days of summer' means get ready for some heat
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