But none of his previous efforts have exuded such a strong fairy-tale quality as “Dogman,” a strange, sincere paean to a brokenhearted outsider who may also be a sociopath. Part musical ...

But a few of them stand out above the rest. One of those — one that seems to come up around October every year — is of the ...

Too bombastic for the French establishment and too idiosyncratic to ever go full Hollywood, Luc Besson once charted an impressive middle ground on the international scene. At his 1990s peak, the ...

“DogMan” is Besson’s first film since 2019’s “Anna.” The feature debuted at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, where IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio noted that Besson and Jones spent a year ...

Luc Besson’s Dogman is a superhero movie in search of a comic book, which makes a refreshing change amid the summer’s raft of DC disappointments. It skews a little close to Todd Phillips ...

He’s now here in Venice with Luc Besson’s DogMan, playing a tormented young man who was abused as a child and who finds salvation through the love of his dogs. The performance is already ...

Besson returns to directing after 2019's "Anna." Director Besson wrote “DogMan” and is producing the film under his LBP EuropaCorp banner. Paris-based Kinology will handle international market ...

Drag queens, disability and dozens of canines converge in Luc Besson’s “DogMan,” which opens with a quotation from a 19th-century French poet and closes with a symbolic crucifixion.

On Fridays, he performs at a drag cabaret, just for fun and self-expression. Maybe “Dogman” would be salvageable if Besson didn’t feel the need to thuddingly explain every single aspect of ...