DOGTOOTH

(ΚΥΝΟΔΟΝΤΑΣ)

The first Greek film to make official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in a decade and winner of the festival’s prestigious Un Certain Regard award, the highly stylised and absurdist Dogtooth sees a Josef Fritzl-like father and wife construct a domestic ‘Eden’ where their docile teens can be protected from a contaminated world.

Unfolding in a deadpan fashion with a satirical black comic vein, the film depicts a hermetically enclosed compound, which even has its own innocuous vocabulary, where a ‘vagina’ is a keyboard, a ‘zombie’ is a yellow flower and cats are considered ruthless predators. Very few outsiders venture inside their walls, until the father engages a female security worker to assist his son with a necessary bodily function – sexual release. 

"Lanthimos has filmed something of a Wes Anderson look-a-like, preened and lustily shot, and yet with the glacial mundaneness of a Michael Haneke tableaux". The Lumière Reader

Warnings:
Explicit sex scenes
Violence

Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni, Anna Kalaintzidou

About the Director:
Yorgos Lanthimos studied film and television direction at Stavrakou School in Athens. Since 1995, he has directed films (Kinetta, 2005), theatre plays, videodance and a large number of TV commercials. He was also a member of the creative team of Dimitris Papaioannou for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

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