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Dogtooth

Cast

Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia View All


Crew

Yorgos Lanthimos (Screenplay), Yorgos Lanthimos (Director), Efthymis Filippou (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 1st, 2009
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his...
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In my opinion in terms of social surrealism Yorgos is almost up there with David lynch and like Lynch most of his films feel like they're from an alternate reality. Also I Love how Yorgos character's ...

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Omnizoa
The trailer refers to the movie as a "satire" and yet I cannot even begin to imagine what this movie might be satirizing beyond overprotective parents which even then it doesn't manage to do anything meaningful with it.
Thief
The children are only allowed to watch home videos of themselves on the TV, while the parents secretly watch porn in their room.
akatemple
The scene with the cat being disemboweled, or maybe the fact that the father and mother teach the children that cats are the most evil animal in the world and will brutally kill you if given the slightest chance was bizarre(so deffinatly watch this movie if you are a cat lover, you can thank me ....


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