Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Embeth Davidtz, written by Alexandra Fuller and Embeth Davidtz and starring Lexi Venter, Zikhona Bali, Embeth Davidtz, Ilana ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Embeth Davidtz about her directorial debut, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight." It's an adaptation of the book about growing up in Rhodesia before decolonization.

Discovery Lexi Venter anchors Davidtz's impressionistic adaptation of a memoir of rural life during the Rhodesian Bush War. Davidtz told IndieWire she needed “a wild, untrained, feral, spontaneous ...

Embeth Davidtz’s critically acclaimed directorial debut is coming to a small screen near you after setting the global cinema and festival circuit ablaze.

Embeth Davidtz’s home is so quiet. Nestled in Brentwood Park, the 59-year-old actor’s spacious yet cozy place feels like a sanctuary, the skylight in her kitchen offering plentiful afternoon sun. Once ...

Embeth Davidtz remembers the violence — and the fear. When she was 8, she moved from bucolic New Jersey, with its rolling green hills and yellow school buses, to her father’s home country of South ...

It’s 1980 in Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, and a war rages, while a high-stakes election could change this country forever. For 7-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter), life continues on at her white ...

The bracing period drama “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” humanizes a childhood that sounds easy to hate. It’s 1980 and 7-year-old Bobo Fuller (an astonishing Lexi Venter) is running wild around ...

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This drama about a white family in Zimbabwe is told almost entirely from the girl’s point of view. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, ...