Kynodontas (Dogtooth)
March 3rd 2011 04:14
Heaven is a prison, security is a poison, and myths are re-invented.
The nuclear family has imploded.
Adolescent young adults protection from the evil of the outside world is maintained from within the confines of a beautifully manicured, isolated country estate, and rigidly enforced by the patriarch with support from the matriarch, and ably assisted, but ultimately perverted, by a bisexual security firm employee hired by the father to relieve his son’s carnal urges.
Christos Stergioglou as the father
Mother (Michele Valley): The new words of the day are: "sea", "highway", "road trip" and "shotgun".
Younger Daughter (Mary Tsoni): What is a "cunt"?
Mother: A "cunt" is a large lamp. Example: The "cunt" switched off and the room got all dark.
Michele Valley as the mother
Son (Hristos Passalis): What is a "zombie"?
Mother: A "zombie" is a little yellow flower.
The son finds two zombies in the garden. The younger daughter finds two silver bream in the swimming pool.
The son (Hristos Passalis) is relieved by Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou)
The elder daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) is obedient
Deception is the order of the day.
Duplicity is a creature of the night.
Edler and younger daughter (Mary Tsoni) prepare to dance for their parents
The elder daughter eventually finds freedom through watching VHS tapes of Jaws, Rocky and Flashdance, She snaps at her brother in the pool, she spars at her reflection in the glass, and she dances like a maniac during her parents’ wedding anniversary celebrations.
And she smashes several teeth out with a mini exercise bar.
Her left canine lies in the blood-splattered basin. The tooth her parents made so important.
Existentialism is the root of surrealism.
Emancipation is in the boot of the car.
Has the elder daughter rebelled successfully? Maybe she will join her ostracized brother, the one they throw zombies to over the high fence?
Still, mother will soon give birth to two more children and a dog.
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Father (Christos Stergioglou): If you don't drink your orange juice while it's fresh, it's no use.
Canine aka Dogtooth movie poster
Giorgos Lanthimos's lamp-black comedy of manners and errors is a very strange domestic nightmare masquerading as perverted parlour game for the most acquired tastes. Sexuality and morality make curious bedfellows. It won the 2009 Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscar's.
Dogtooth licks and/or barks. Depending on your boundaries.
Consider yourself warned. It's all Greek to me.
Sawtooth, sine wave, dogtooth, canine
Here’s the trailer:
Dogtooth DVD is courtesy of Madman Entertainment, many thanks!
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Or something like that.
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Comment by Bryn
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I "enjoyed" it the more it went along.