Dogtooth

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

This provocative and darkly comic film provides an insight into the alternative universe of three teenage siblings, who have grown up completely shut off from the outside world – forbidden by their overprotective parents to leave the isolated family home. The now grown up children have their own vocabulary, and strange beliefs about the wider world fostered by their father – believing cats to be man eating predators and aeroplanes flying overhead to be toys.

When the father decides to invite his colleague Christina to the family home to service his son’s sexual urges, their strange domestic balance is irrevocably disturbed as the son and his two sisters start experimenting with sexuality and violence…

Duration:
97 minutes

Languages:
Greek

Subtitles:
Full English

Country of origin:
Greece

Year of production:
2009