Avida (DVD)

In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in a world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals. In the midst of such madness, a stocky animal handler (Gustave Kervern) falls in with a pair of dissolute zookeepers (Benoit Delepine and Eric Martin). The zookeepers involve their new friend in a crazy scheme to kidnap the pet dog of a very wealthy woman, Avida (Velvet).