改编自Luis de Castresana的同名小说。
影片以纪实手法记述发生在1936年战争时期的真实事件。一批儿童被送往国外,远离亲人和硝烟中的西班牙。桑迪带着妹妹贝戈妮娅去了比利时,分别寄养在两个家庭中。但他不肯认领养人为父母,重新被送入寄宿学校,在他心目中,父母是无人可以替代的。校园中的一棵大树,被这些远离祖国的西班牙孩子命名为“格尔尼卡之树”,他们看见它就仿佛在家一样……
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.