The Dog Pound(2006)

David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.

Genre: Drama

Director: Manolo Nieto

Actors: Pablo Riera, Martín Adjemián, María Sofía Dabarca, Richard Vera, Chica Barbosa, Mauro de los Santos, Federico Silva, Diego Richard Torbay, Gabriel Pellejero, Miguel Coitiño

Release date: 2006-05-05

Country of origin: Argentina, Canada, Spain, Uruguay

Length: 1h 48m

Ratings:

• 5.8/10