Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il film ha squarci di grande potenza visiva. Il prologo con la bicicletta di Lili, che percorre la città deserta, inseguita da centinaia di cani è un’immagine che non si dimentica. E che ritorna nel finale.
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: In this imaginative but inept cautionary parable—the Un Certain Regard prize-winner at Cannes—a girl searches for her beloved dog, who becomes a canine Spartacus after being brutalized by a cruel dog-fighting ring.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A poignant Hungarian parable about the terrible things that can happen when there is no reverence for dogs as fellow companions.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker was wise choosing a species known for its capacity for unconditional love to make his point, its perversion all the more emotionally wrenching.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: White God’ – A Movie About A Girl And Her Dog Turns Into A Sea Of Canine Brutality
- Oktay Kozak @ DVD Talk
- [New – 10/22/15] | Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: A haunting parable about the worrying nationalist tendencies in contemporary Hungary.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The dogs are the tail that wags this movie, and that eerily dreamlike opening sequence is paid off with a stunning climax as the pack of dogs, 271 of them, and all real, not a CGI imposter among them, comes stampeding through the streets of Budapest.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: White God’ spends too much time with its people; but what you will remember about it is the hundreds of dogs rampaging through the streets of Budapest, a feat of practical animal choreography that has never been attempted on this scale before.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Chronicling the harrowing journey of mixed-breed dog Hagen, White God asks that the viewer accept some distinctly human-like behaviors from an animal.
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