Black Eyed Dog is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pierre Gang and released in 2006.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Black Eyed Dog – Film de Pierre Gang". Films du Québec, December 27, 2008. The film stars Sonya Salomaa as Betty, a waitress in the small Miramichi-area town of Riverton, New Brunswick, who is going through a personal crisis around her failed dreams of becoming a singer, amid the context of a serial killer terrorizing the area.Natalia Wysocka, "Black Eyed Dog : Chienne de vie". Voir, September 28, 2006.
The cast also includes James Hyndman, David Boutin, Brendan Fletcher, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Fred Ewanuick, Nadia Litz, Gabriel Gascon, Vlasta Vrana, Charlie Rhindress, Marguerite McNeil and Bronwen Mantel in supporting roles.
The film premiered on August 5, 2006, at the Locarno Film Festival,Fionnuala Halligan, "Locarno's line-up boasts more US films". Screen Daily, July 12, 2006. and had its Canadian premiere on August 26 at the Montreal World Film Festival."Pleins feux sur le FFM". Ici Radio-Canada, August 24, 2006.
Jason Anderson of The Globe and Mail wrote that the film was essentially a pale imitation of a David Adams Richards novel, faring especially poorly in comparison to the 2002 film adaptation of The Bay of Love and Sorrows.Jason Anderson, "Black Eyed Dog". The Globe and Mail, October 27, 2006.
François Laplante received two Jutra Award nominations at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007, for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2007: récapitulatif". Films du Québec, December 26, 2008.
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