Gunda
First screened in June 2025
Director: Viktor Kossakovsky. Documentary about daily lives of a pig and her piglets, a one-legged rooster, and a herd of cattle on a Norwegian farm.
Photo © 2020 NEON/Sant & Usant
In Brief:
Silvery documentary of farmlife reveals not just animal rhythms and sensoria but blurry line between thriving and precarity.
VOR:
④
Of course other filmmakers have ventured this kind of painstaking, unhurried study but few have achieved the poignancy and deceptive subtlety.
Grade:
B+
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