Dogs Don't Wear Pants

Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Finnish: Koirat eivät käytä housuja) is a 2019 Finnish erotic black comedy[1] film directed by J-P Valkeapää. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3]

Dogs Don't Wear Pants
Theatrical release poster
FinnishKoirat eivät käytä housuja
Directed byJ-P Valkeapää
Produced by
  • Aleksi Bardy
  • Helen Vinogradov
Written by
  • J-P Valkeapää
  • Juhana Lumme
Starring
Music byMichal Nejtek
CinematographyPietari Peltola
Edited byMervi Junkkonen
Production
companies
  • Helsinki-filmi
  • Tasse Film
Distributed bySF Film Finland
Release date
  • 21 May 2019 (2019-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 1 November 2019 (2019-11-01) (Finland)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish

Premise

Seven years after his wife tragically drowned, widower Juha finds himself emotionally distant as he raises his daughter Elli alone. When a chance encounter with Mona, a dominatrix, brings him closer than ever before to feeling something again, he finds himself entering the world of BDSM—and finds it threatening to undo his everyday life.

Cast

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.39/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Dogs Don't Wear Pants will be too intense for many viewers, but for those who can take the punishment, there's pleasure in this stark drama's pain."[4]

References
  1. "Movie Review: Dogs Don't Wear Pants". Flickering Myth. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. Keslassy, Elsa (4 April 2019). "Cannes: Deerskin With Jean Dujardin to Open Directors' Fortnight". Variety. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  3. Goodfellow, Melanie. "Cannes Directors' Fortnight unveils genre-heavy 2019 selection". Screen Daily. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. "Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Koirat eivät käytä housuja) (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
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