
Black Dog
After his release from prison, Lang returns to his hometown near the Gobi Desert, where he forms an unexpected bond with a stray black dog.

After his release from prison, Lang returns to his hometown near the Gobi Desert, where he forms an unexpected bond with a stray black dog.
(Supplied: Sydney Film Festival). Black Dog's early 2008 setting makes overt reference to the Beijing Olympics, an event emblematic of China's sweeping modernisation and its corresponding tumult, whose shock waves contour the film. When…
Film. This article is more than 1 year old. Review.The location of this excellent, deliberately understated picture is key to the story: a blighted, partially abandoned town on the wind-lashed fringes of the Gobi desert in the north-west…
The melancholic crime drama Black Dog is a muted affair, in every sense. Its Gobi Desert setting is all dusky greys and sandy whites, shot in ... Black Dog: enigmatic Chinese drama tells a story of loss, redemption and canine love An…