Wiener-Dog is a bleak, pitch-black comedy that forgets to be cynically charming or morbidly funny, because apparently we needed one more kick in the nuts from life?
the eighth and perhaps most blithely eccentric feature to date from Todd Solondz. A wandering short story compendium, bound by deadpan musings on mortality and the presence of one winsome Dachshund
Solondz smartly bookends the project with its best vignettes; excepting, perhaps, an inspired, Western-themed intermission sequence that has to be seen to be believed, the first segment is the flat-out funniest