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 audiences insist no one makes anymore.

Like Claire Denis’ Africa-set “Chocolat,” with Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) taking the place of Cameroon, the film depicts the collapse of European colonial control from the white settlers’ perspective. For attempting such a tricky project as her directorial debut, enormous respect is due Embeth Davidtz , a versatile actor who moved us as Helen Hirsch in “Schindler’s List,” but never again had such an important role … until now.

The tongue-twisting title hails from Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name. A cursory investigation on my part reveals that i

See Full Page