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Movie review: 'Dogtooth'
The second feature from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and the
winner of the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in
2009, "Dogtooth" is part enigma, part allegory and even part sci-fi in its
creation of a completely alternate reality.
The story assays a well-off family living on a remote compound where
the parents work to keep their children, now young adults, confined to
a state of arrested pre-adolescence free from outside influences. The
children, and by extension the film itself, exist in a state charged with
sexualized tension and menace that constantly threatens to break
loose.
"Dogtooth" reaches a frenzied climax of sorts when the older daughter
turns a family-night dance into a startlingly enthusiastic, innocently
inappropriate and illicit recreation of a number from "Flashdance."
Dogtooth." No MPAA rating. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. Playing
at the Cinefamily, Los Angeles.
winner of the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in
2009, "Dogtooth" is part enigma, part allegory and even part sci-fi in its
creation of a completely alternate reality.
The story assays a well-off family living on a remote compound where
the parents work to keep their children, now young adults, confined to
a state of arrested pre-adolescence free from outside influences. The
children, and by extension the film itself, exist in a state charged with
sexualized tension and menace that constantly threatens to break
loose.
"Dogtooth" reaches a frenzied climax of sorts when the older daughter
turns a family-night dance into a startlingly enthusiastic, innocently
inappropriate and illicit recreation of a number from "Flashdance."
Dogtooth." No MPAA rating. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. Playing
at the Cinefamily, Los Angeles.