Luc Besson’s ‘Dogman’ Comeback
The genre-blurring film stars Caleb Landry Jones (‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’) as a man who was severely abused as a child but survives thanks to his preternatural affinity with canines.

Luc Besson let the dogs out in Venice Thursday night, premiering his comeback vehicle, Dogman.
Besson and the cast were showered with howls of approval from the audience.
Besson’s 21st feature, which sold widely ahead of its Venice debut, is being closely watched as a possible return to directorial form for the maker of Lucy and The Fifth Element.
The past half-decade has been a tumultuous period for Besson’s business and reputation, following the flop of his big-budget sci-fi Valerian (2017), the implosion of his French studio EuropaCorp, and #MeToo scandal involving accusations of rape and sexual assault.