Watch how Victor Kossakovsky constructed a camera-friendly barn, used a disco ball for light, and stayed true to the detailed language of pigs. “Gunda” is, in many ways, a remarkably simple film about ...

Joaquin Phoenix serves as an executive producer on Viktor Kossakovsky’s mesmerizing look at the lives of farm animals. More experience than movie, “Gunda” is a visionary case for veganism in black and ...

Viktor Kosakovskiy’s existentialist, meditative masterpiece Gunda reminds a great deal of the contemplative works of Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. Using only diegetic sound and stark, expressive ...

The barnyard setting of “Gunda” could hardly be more familiar, but in Russian director Victor Kossakovsky's documentary, a pigsty is rendered an almost alien landscape. Kossakovsky's film is shot in ...

Some were bemused earlier this month when Joaquin Phoenix used his entirely expected Oscar win as a less predictable occasion for an impassioned animal-rights plea: It was certainly the first time ...

Imagine a mother raising a large family, nurturing her children from birth, tending to their every need, only to have them plucked from her, not knowing where they’ve been taken. Imagine the mother’s ...

As he made his way through the pre-pandemic awards season last year, picking up trophies for his performance in “Joker,” actor Joaquin Phoenix gave an increasingly powerful series of speeches. Phoenix ...

Want to watch animals on film? You’re in luck. You can get stoned and turn on Planet Earth or Blue Planet. You can see man befriend mollusk in My Octopus Teacher, or penguins mating and migrating in ...

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After Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath did a review of the Mithun Chakravarty movie Gunda, many, for the first time, heard about it. Then, many proceeded to watch it. I was not among them, until now, ...

Gunda begins with a pig – just an ordinary pig, its proud snout stuck halfway out of its weather-worn hutch. Russian documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky has chosen to capture his experimental, ...

THR review: Shot in black-and-white and dialogue-free, 'Gunda,' the new documentary from 'Aquarela' director Victor Kossakovsky, spends quality time with farm animals, centering on a sow raising her ...