New Orleans Film Society

Synopsis

“For a film as rhapsodic as the animated My Dog Tulip, words are insufficient: One wants to bark with joy and, at times of melancholy, issue a plaintive howl,” raved New York magazine film reviewer David Edelstein. “Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s adaptation of aging British bachelor J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir of life with his beloved German shepherd is worthy of its source. You’ll rarely hear a more perfect fusion of actor and first-person narrator than Christopher Plummer, who speaks in a tender, melodious rasp, with a dying fall that reminds you that the root of the word ‘nostalgia’ is the Greek nostos, or pain.”