Shooting Dogs

 

Shooting Dogs 2005

• Director: Michael Caton-Jones
• Seen by this director: Rob Roy
• Based on book: no
• Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Nicola Walker, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney, Steve Toussaint, David Gyasi, Victor Power, Clare-Hope Ashity
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• John Hurt – Doctor Who, Snowpiercer, Only Lovers Left Alive, Merlin, The Hollow Crown, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Harry Potter, Melancholia, Brighton Rock, V for Vendetta, Contact, Dead Man, Rob Roy, The Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express, I Claudius
• Hugh Dancy – Hysteria, The Jane Austen Book Club, Ella Enchanted, Daniel Deronda
• Nicola Walker – Annika, Unforgotten, Last Tango in Halifax, Doctor Who, River, Being Human, Luther, The Turn of the Screw
• Louis Mahoney – River, Being Human, Doctor Who, Shooting Fish, Cry Freedom, Fawlty Towers
• Steve Toussaint – Doctor Who, Fortitude
• David Gyasi – Annihilation, Interstellar, Cloud Atlas, Doctor Who, The Dark Knight Rises
• Clare-Hoppe Ashity – Doctor Who, Children of Men
• Why?  The subject. John Hurt.
• Seen: 21 June 2023 

Rwanda 1994. You know. If you don’t, Google it.

John Hurt is a Catholic priest, Hugh Dancy is an idealistic teacher, Nicola Walker is a journalist.

The massacre begins.

Like films about the Holocaust, there can never be too many. The story needs to be told, and told, and told. 

4 * of 5