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      Dogtooth

      2009 1h 34m Drama List
      93% 71 Reviews Tomatometer 76% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father's who makes regular visits to sexually service the son (Hristos Passalis). Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) hatches a plan to escape. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 21 Buy Now

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      It'll be too disturbing -- and meandering -- for some, but Dogtooth is as disturbing and startlingly original as modern filmmaking gets.

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      Dylan S Suspenseful, lingering, yet eerily familiar. It stabs at the darker side of societal isolation, normality, and the desolation of impressionable youth. While it can be hard to watch, "Dogtooth" provides a discomforting yet potent cinematic experience to those who can stomach it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/18/24 Full Review Kurtis E You know what's a better movie than this movie? A written synopsis of this movie. I love a slow burn, but this was hard to sit through. So many long drawn out arthouse shots without the relief of anything exciting to break up the monotony. That feels weird to write as this movie is full of tits, abuse, and incest, but it just feels uncomfortable. Not uncomfortable-but-fun, more like that feeling you get when you sit through a movie that didn't age well with someone you just met. Anyway, maybe I just need to familiarize myself with this director's works as this may be on par. "Shocking" is the word that keeps popping up in reviews for this film, and maybe that would feel appropriate to me if this film had come out in the 70's and I were viewing it through the lens of 70's sensibilities, but that's simply not the case. I would be down to maybe give this a rewatch in the future; perhaps it's one of those films with an "acquired taste." The final ~15 minutes were pretty entertaining, however. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/03/24 Full Review Iain C An observation in isolated, perverse behaviour with disturbing bizarro moments. A movie that sparks conversation. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/24 Full Review Mike W Dogtooth more like dog feces. This was weird for sake of weird. Full of incest and boring. There is literally no ending to this film. It just shuts off. No payoff for the torture of watching it. Barely a plot. It's technically in a genre I enjoy but this was arthouse nonsense. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/07/23 Full Review Irene M Although the director says there is a lot of humor, he *is* out to be thought provoking, and that means disturbing. The movie ended with me saying "wait, really?!" and then the movie was like a gong pealing in my head, all the next day, as I pieced together the significance of lines that I hadn't fully understood when I first heard them. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/12/23 Full Review Eleanor Can't deny I laughed a little but this should be called Dogshit. It's the most pretentious film I've seen in a very very long time, I seriously don't get the praise. It's really really fucking dumb in every possible way and let's be honest, if you have to think for an hour straight why a movie is good and deep maybe it's not that good and deep you know? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      John Hartl Seattle Times To put it mildly, "Dogtooth" is not for everyone, but it can grow on you even if you think you've rejected its influence. Rated: 3/4 Mar 10, 2011 Full Review Peter Howell Toronto Star This is the second feature for Lanthimos, and it's a leap from his well-received debut Kinetta. He skilfully doles out tantalizing pieces of information, keeping the viewer in a constant state of suspense and wonder. Rated: 4/4 Jan 29, 2011 Full Review Jennie Punter Globe and Mail The true dark-horse nominee among this year's foreign-language Oscar contenders, Dogtooth leaves bite marks that stick around long after you are released from its grip. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 28, 2011 Full Review Angelos Koutsourakis PopMatters By systematically abusing the language system, Dogtooth confronts the postmodern speculative dichotomy between reality and fiction. Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity The inexplicable is the everyday and the everyday of these characters lack our reason. What Lanthimos does just right is insure that there are many metaphors and there are none: it’s an X-ray... of fears about society and control. Rated: 10/10 Sep 22, 2022 Full Review Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants A really good lay. Jan 10, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father's who makes regular visits to sexually service the son (Hristos Passalis). Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) hatches a plan to escape.
      Director
      Yorgos Lanthimos
      Producer
      Iraklis Mavroidis
      Screenwriter
      Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
      Production Co
      Greek Film Center, Horsefly Productions, Boo Productions
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Greek
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 10, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $110.2K
      Runtime
      1h 34m
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