peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2012 11 11 GatesOfHeaven

Gates of Heaven (1978)

Sun, Nov 11, 2012./noise/movies | Link

Another Errol Morris (one of his first). A bunch of Californians go on, at length, about their pets, their dreams about pet cemeteries, and their life philosophies. It is like reading the pages of a tabloid newspaper: alternately and simultaneously touching, horrifying, funny and stupefying. It proved either too oblique or condescending to get into.