Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
The most perverse film of the year—you’ll be scratching your head when you’re not laughing it off. In an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control, Dogtooth presents scenes from the life of a not-so-average family that inhabits an idyllic villa compound sealed off from all contact with the outside world. In a new spin on home schooling, the head of the household has taught his adolescent children a drastically rearranged vocabulary: a salt shaker is a “telephone,” an armchair is “the sea” and—you get the idea. Moreover, to attend to the teenagers’ sexual needs, he arranges occasional visits from a female employee. With echoes of Buñuel, Arturo Ripstein, and early Atom Egoyan, this is a deadpan satire on patriarchy and the sexual Pandora’s box concealed within every family. A Kino International release.
“Magnificently disturbing” –Time Out New York
2009. Greece. 96 min.
SCREENING WITH
Quadrangle – directed by Amy Grappell
An unconventional look at the director’s conventional parents, who lived in a group marriage in the ’70s. 2010. USA. 20 min.
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Tue Mar 30: 9:00 (MOMA)
Wed Mar 31: 6:15 (FSLC)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Yorgos Lanthimos (b. Athens, 1973) studied film and television direction at Stavrakos Film School. Since 1995, he has directed numerous short films, experimental theater productions, music videos, and TV commercials. His first feature film was 2005’s internationally acclaimed Kinetta.
