My Dog Tulip is a tender and exquisite animation about one man and his dog which gets as close to what it is to love dogs as I’ve ever encountered, and goes a considerable way to making up for what dog-lovers have had to put up with at the cinema in recent years (Hotel for Dogs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Marley & Me; utter tripe).
My Dog Tulip is a tender and exquisite animation about one man and his dog which gets as close to what it is to love dogs as I’ve ever encountered, and goes a considerable way to making up for what dog-lovers have had to put up with at the cinema in recent years (Hotel for Dogs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Marley & Me; utter tripe).
This is based on the 1956 memoir by J.R. Ackerley (1896–1967), one of the great literary editors of his day (he was arts editor of the BBC magazine the Listener), and who, for 15 years, shared his small Putney flat with Tulip, an Alsatian bitch whom he observed with an awe that was rapturous but never sentimental.
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