A dog waits 20 years for a hero who may never return. Pack tissues.
20 years have passed since Ulysses went to fight in the Trojan War. Now he's considered lost and deceased. In Itaca, his homeland, his old dog Argos awaits his owner, wondering if he'll ever come back.
Direction
Amengual stretches 14 minutes into an epic of silence and waiting.
Acting
Dau the dog gives more emotional range than most Oscar nominees.
Director
Guillermo Amengual
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Homer's original Argos dies immediately upon reunion; Amengual's expansion stretches that single moment into its own odyssey of waiting.
The film joins a wave of 'sad dog cinema' from Hachiko to The Red Turtle, but mythologizes the trope by literalizing its ancient source.
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