Dogtooth

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) delivers with his solo directorial debut "a masterpiece that simultaneously disgusts, dismays and fascinates." (filmstarts.com) A pair of parents isolate their children from the outside world and raise them in an isolated house. In the process, they impart a distorted view of the world to the three youngsters. The world behind the garden hedge is supposedly an evil and dangerous place, and new meanings are ascribed to familiar everyday terms. Family life is characterized by emotionless discipline and the innocently perverse games of the three siblings, who use them to pass the time. "The masterpiece of the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos is a bitterly surrealistic parable from the homeland." (rollingstone.com)

Keywords

  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Halloween: scream different
  • LuxFilmFest
  • Just released
  • Remastered Movies
  • The Oscars
  • family
  • freedom
  • parenthood
  • the edge

Actors

  • Christos Stergioglou
  • Aggeliki Papoulia
  • Christos Passalis
  • Michele Valley
  • Anna Kalaintzidou
  • Mary Tsoni

Director

  • Yorgos Lanthimos

Drama, Independent


1h 36min


-16

EL


FR

NL

Greece
2009
Yorgos Lanthimos' highly acclaimed debut won more than 20 awards.

Yorgos Lanthimos' highly acclaimed debut won more than 20 awards.


Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) delivers with his solo directorial debut "a masterpiece that simultaneously disgusts, dismays and fascinates." (filmstarts.com)


A pair of parents isolate their children from the outside world and raise them in an isolated house. In the process, they impart a distorted view of the world to the three youngsters. The world behind the garden hedge is supposedly an evil and dangerous place, and new meanings are ascribed to familiar everyday terms. Family life is characterized by emotionless discipline and the innocently perverse games of the three siblings, who use them to pass the time.


"The masterpiece of the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos is a bitterly surrealistic parable from the homeland." (rollingstone.com)

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