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Gunda (2020 film)

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Wikipedia article




'Gunda' (also known as 'Gunda: Mother, Pig') is a 2020 documentary film directed, co-written, and co-edited by Viktor Kossakovsky. The film follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken. Joaquin Phoenix serves as an executive producer.

The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 23, 2020. It was released in the United States on April 16, 2021, by Neon.

Synopsis



Shot in black-and-white and without dialogue, the film follows the daily life of Gunda a sow and her piglets, two cows, and a one-legged chicken. A note during the credits indicates that the documentary was filmed in farms and sanctuaries in Norway, Spain, and the UK.

Release



The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 23, 2020. Shortly after, Neon acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. It screened at the New York Film Festival on September 19, 2020 and at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2020. The film was released in the United States on April 16, 2021.

Critical reception



'Gunda' received positive reviews from film critics. It holds approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 50 positive and one negative review, with an average of . The site's critical consensus reads, "'Gunda' takes an absorbingly meditative look at farm life from the animals' perspective, tacitly posing questions about our relationship to food along the way." Metacritic reports a score of 89 out of 100, based on 13 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Writing for 'The New York Times' Manhola Dargis describes the documentary as "sublimely beautiful and profoundly moving". Similarly, Eric Kohn of 'IndieWire' praised the documentary, describing it as "a visionary case for veganism in black and white." Guy Lodge of 'Variety' says the film's "radiantly beautiful imagery and gently immersive storytelling arent in service of a single browbeating message, but a broader, holistic view of where we and the animals we rear, use and consume fit into a single circle of life."

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