The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet review – a mini masterwork

A health crisis turns a series of odd vignettes into an enigmatic wonder as one man and his dog navigate a mysterious world

Give this movie 73 minutes, and it will give you the world ... somebody's world, anyway. Argentinian film-maker Ana Katz has created an intriguing and beguiling little black-and-white drama that's punching way above its weight.

It's a series of scenes or vignettes, like a collection of short stories, each about the same person, a little older each time. This is Sebastian, or Sebas, a gentle, laid-back man in his 30s, played by the director's brother Daniel Katz. Sebas is an intelligent guy, a graphic designer, trained in the use of Adobe Illustrator, but now trying to get temp jobs, made more difficult because he's not allowed to take his dog into the office, and leaving him at home makes the poor thing howl with misery so much that the neighbours are upset.