Marcello is a simple man, whose life revolves around his grooming salon for dogs and his daughter Sofia; Simone is a former boxer with violent ways just released from prison. After a long series of abuses, Marcello decides to help Simoncino in some robberies, but he ends up having to serve a year in prison. Once he left and realized he was alone, Marcello decided to take revenge.
October 12, 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
27 March 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
12 September 1979, Rome, Lazio, Italy
September 18, 2018
If Fellini had made gritty ultra-violent movies they would have looked like this.May 25, 2018
The overall feel is of the kind of Aesop's fable Scorsese would tell his kids.May 19, 2018
I might have bought what he's doing in a different film, but the one that Garrone has made strains too hard to have it both ways.September 16, 2018
Matteo Garrone's unflinching character study... has a strong chance at the Oscars because of Fonte's expressive performanceMay 17, 2018
This isn't all that much of a mystery... Garrone's oppressively bleak new film isn't memorable enough to help us with that. Woof.September 07, 2018
Garrone excels at gradually increasing his vice grip on an initially joyful, humanist milieu.September 06, 2018
It's all surface level stuff, and while it's appropriately grimy, it's like being punished and chastised for something you already know to be true.September 10, 2018
Garrone's film is a one-note loop of a persistently passive man.September 12, 2018
What's most amazing about Dogman is its ability to speak truthfully using metaphor and extremity. It's art.September 05, 2018
By redefining the dichotomous categories of "victim" and "executioner," Garrone creates an intriguing coming-of-fear story.September 05, 2018
The naively amenable character is wonderfully observed by Fonte, and early scenes show delicious whimsy and black comedy.May 17, 2018
A teeth-chattering culmination of Matteo Garrone's darkest themes.