Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
Directed by J-P Valkeapää
A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine.
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From Barbet Schoeder’s Maîtresse (1975) to Steven Shainberg’s Secretary (2002), David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996) to Stuart Urban’s Preaching to the Perverted (1997), there’s a veritable rainbow of different ways that sexual pleasure, consent, and power play has manifested across film history.
As Peter Strickland noted when I told him in a public Q&A session in 2019 at the Melbourne International Film Festival that his queer BDSM magnum opus The Duke of Burgundy (2014) had been released on home entertainment in Australia with the film review pull-quote “the thinking person’s 50 Shades of Grey ,” he was typically generous in his response; while certainly not comfortable with this descriptor, he freely admitted that he enjoyed Taylor-Johnson’s film because it had an unironic Mills & Boon quality that he found quite sincere.
In case the filmic version of Fifty Shades of Grey was ultimately a little too safe in its actuality compared to the near-porn mentality of E.L. James’s novel, J-P Valkeapää‘s striking Dogs Don’t Wear Pants stands as something of a reparative.