Laurie Anderson has been through a lot. The iconic New York artist lost husband Lou Reed in 2013, and among other friends who've recently passed is beloved rat terrier Lolabelle—the titular focus of Anderson's first film in a decade, Heart of a Dog. Despite the essential grief folded into the project, Dog is a soothing, therapeutic film: ramblingly personal, strong and calm, and gently funny.
As a narrative, Heart of a Dog is hard to describe; it doesn't tell a story in the proper sense, and has a touch-and-go relationship with time.
