Putting on the Dog  I know a lot of women who proclaim loudly
and often that men are dogs, but this is the first time I can
recall seeing a film that takes the accusation literally. The
main character in Carlo Carlei's Fluke is a family man who dies
in a car crash as the movie opens, only to be reincarnated as a
canine.  Director/co-screenwriter Carlei's previous film (and
directorial debut) began with violent death as well; Flight of
the Innocent opened with a young boy barely escaping after
watching Mafia thugs massacre his family in the mountains of
Sicily. Of course in that movie the dead people didn't return as
cuddly animals. But in the publicity materials for Fluke, Carlei
reveals that the main reason he agreed to direct Flight of the
Innocent (a Golden Globe nominee for best foreign film last
year, for what that's worth A somebody liked it) in the first
place was to make a name for himself in hopes of amassing enough
clout to realize his twelve-year-old dream of filming James
Herbert's novel about a d