Beware of the dog who thinks.
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89%
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6.9
- Release Date: Jan 18, 1989
- Rated: R | Runtime: 82 Mins | Language: French
- Director: Jérôme Boivin
- Stars: Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran, Sabrina Leurquin, Jean-Paul Roussillon, François Driancourt, Maxime Leroux, Daniel Rialet, Evelyne Didi
Critic Reviews:
There’ll be plenty who find the bleak humour of Baxter several shades too dark for their tastes and to be sure it’s a deliberately provocative and confrontational film. Baxter may be a dog but it’s his mind we’re forced to inhabit for much of the film and it’s his misanthropic, twisted but frequently very funny worldview we are forced to share. It is, in a sense, a serial killer movie...
The movie is very dark, but very well crafted and executed. The narrative can be a bit slow at many points, but those who enjoy the mind of Baxter will appreciate the extra time spent within it. It is better to not go into this one expecting a proper horror film. Baxter is a morbidly funny psychological examination of a nihilistic canine.
– GVN
