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Title: Lugubrious, and what happened to the second dog?
Review: This film is very stylish with some gorgeous scenes and flashes of brilliance, but that will only carry you so far before boredom sets in. I think the editor needs a serious talking to -- all those scenes of naked bodies floating in water set to violin music may have seemed interesting at the time, but I was leaping for the fast-forward button on a regular basis. [WARNING, POTENTIAL MINOR SPOILER] At the beginning of the film the bereaved Mr. Firth is informed that one of his dogs was found dead at the scene along with his lover, but the issue of what happened to the second dog is a total loose end that never comes up again. Laugh if you will, but the character, who is obviously very affected by the love for and memory of his dogs, would have made an effort to find that missing dog who was the last link to his dead lover. I don't know if this was a flaw in the novel or the film, but it deeply irked me.
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