we see gunda suckling and raising a batch of young piglets, watching them grow, all without the aid of explanatory captions or narration, or emotive music to tell us how to feel. there s nothing anthropomorphic or sentimental about the film which includes footage of gunda standing on one of her brood, oblivious to its squeals. yet it s impossible to watch these creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult when dealing with farm livestock rather than dolphins, elephants or pandas. yet gunda, on which joaquin phoenix gets an executive producer credit, makes for remarkably powerful experience presented in strikingly
about farmyard animals focusing on the titular sow. squealing. over the course of the film, we see gunda suckling and raising a batch of young piglets, watching them grow, all without the aid of explanatory captions or narration, or emotive music to tell us how to feel. there s nothing anthropomorphic or sentimental about the film which includes footage of gunda standing on one of her brood, oblivious to its squeals. yet it s impossible to watch these creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult
which includes footage of good understanding on one of her brood, oblivious to its squeals. yet it s impossible to watch these creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult when dealing with farm livestock rather than dolphins, elephants or pandas. yet viktor kossakovsky, on whichjoaquin phoenix gets yet gunda on which joaquin phoenix gets an executive producer credit, makes for remarkably powerful experience presented in strikingly intimate monochrome images that caused there will be blood director paul thomas anderson to hail it as pure cinema stripped to its essential elements. when you ve watched the film
yet it s impossible to watch these creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult when dealing with farm livestock rather than dolphins, elephants or pandas. yet gunda, on which joaquin phoenix gets an executive producer credit, makes for remarkably powerful experience presented in strikingly intimate monochrome images that caused there will be blood director paul thomas anderson to hail it as pure cinema stripped to its essential elements. when you ve watched the film which contains one of the most memorable final shots i ve ever seen, you ll know exactly what he means.