Page 2 April 2, 2015 Film Review White God is a Dog Epic For the Ages Zsófia Psotta in White God, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. By Ryan Rojas for CINEMACY In White God, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó tells a thrilling and heartbreaking modern-day parable about the oppressions endured by lower-class people at the hands of those with power and the social consequences that may inevitably arise. The lower class people here in Mundruczó’s daring and bold film, just happens to be non-human, real-life dogs – around two-hundred and fifty of which were involved in making this incredible genreexperiment of a film. The winner of last year’s Cannes Award ‘Un Certain Regard’ (an award given to films with various types of “original and different” visions and styles that work to seek international recognition), White God is nothing short of jaw-dropping in its ambition and ultimately realized vision. In Hungarian with English subtitles, the film transcends its European region to connect its display of politically and socially marginalized cultures to a universal level. White God follows two youthful and innocent characters whose early first-hand experiences with injustice lead to full character changes, into disillusioned and battle-hardened learners of the sometimes cruel real-world. First-time actor and thirteen year old Zsófia Psotta stars as Lili, a girl who is sent to live with her divorced father Daniel (Sándor Zsótéro), bringing along her trumpet and dog, (and the film’s second star) Hagen, a mixed-breed that is seen as an inconvenience to everyone except his loyal young owner. So when Daniel’s apartment manager learns of the dog and tells him of the state’s tax that must be paid for owning mixed-breeds, his frustrations give way to his doing away with Hagen, depositing him on the side of the road as a helpless Lili is left to watch Hagen grow out of sight, confused, abandoned, and alone. At this point, the rest of the film brilliantly unfolds in cutting between Lili and Hagen in parallel-path narratives, which track their journeys as they each struggle to navigate through their new and uncertain worlds. Lili, at first only slightly angstful, slowly shades into an authority-defying little anarchist in her own right, shown unbending to the wills of her father or band teacher’s hypocrisies, while continuing to search for Hagen. Hagen, meanwhile, is seen learning to live on the streets, struggling to cross roads with zooming oncoming traffic, but soon enough encountering a pack of other canines in the city’s back alleys to survive with. These full, wordless sequences make this reviewer wonder how the on-set animal training and editing were combined to create these incredible scenes, some of the film’s most effective parts. The film makes its more moving statements in the second act’s events, as Hagen is shown subjected to the unfortunate life of a stray within a society that fails to aid, making for Looking Up Spring Eclipses of Sun and Moon The Moon during an eclipse in October 2014. Another lunar eclipse will occur in Southern California on April 2. Photo by Tom Ruen. Based on press release from Williams College, provided by Bob Eklund This spring, our Sun and Moon happen to be so aligned that first the Moon’s shadow falls on the Earth and then, two weeks later, the Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon. The result: sky-watchers are being treated to both a solar and a lunar eclipse. 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