Film Festival 09 - Dogtooth
Dogtooth
Kynodontas, Grece 2009, 96m
Director: Yorgos Lathimos
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2009
Prize Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2009
This ferocious and funny depiction of insane, for-your-own-good
Dad-power was the first Greek film to make official selection at
Cannes in a decade, and the first to make it on to our programme in
just as long. In a secluded, fenced-in country house, three
20-something 'kids' have spent their lives permanently grounded by
their obsessively controlling parents. Even words that refer to the
world outside have been reshaped by Dad to eliminate any hint of an
alternative to domestic bliss. Ingeniously stylised in direction
and performance this incisive incitement to rebellion takes place
in a strangely credible universe as vividly imagined as any on show
this year. - BG. "Blackly funny and lightly horrific, Dogtooth
keeps you enthralled with the sheer brutal lunacy of the parents'
behaviour, which gradually and brilliantly tips over from the
hilarious to the bizarre to the shocking to the sickening. Great
stuff." - Matt Bochenski, LittleWhiteLies
