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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ delves into colonialist mentality through the eyes of a child

In an early scene in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” 8-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter) stuns her family when she asks her mother if they are racists. Bobo has grown up in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in ...
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DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT – Review

LEXI VENTER as Bobo Fuller and ZIKHONA BALI as Sarah, in DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT. Photo: Coco Van Oppens. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics A family drama, told through the eyes of a child ...
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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ Review: Embeth Davidtz Captures a Changing Africa Through a Child’s Eyes

The title’s a problem, but it would be a crying shame to let that discourage you from seeing “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” which is precisely the sort of intelligent, human-scale adult drama ...
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A memoir of an African upbringing in turbulent times comes to life in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

"Are we racists?" 8-year-old Alexandra "Bobo" Fuller (Lexi Venter) asks her parents in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and the defensive response offers everything viewers need to know about the ...
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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ shows war through one child’s extraordinary eyes

“Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified (and defensive) mother. There are so many ways this three-word line reading could ...
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‘Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight' Review: Channeling Memories of Her Own, Embeth Davidtz Captures a Changing Africa Through a Child's Eyes

The title's a problem, but it would be a crying shame to let that discourage you from seeing "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," which is precisely the sort of intelligent, human-scale adult drama ...