| November 2, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:36 pm |
| November 5, 2009 | ||
| 6:15 pm | to | 7:56 pm |
Greece
2009/35mm/96mins
MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2.00 PM – Dendy
THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 6.15 PM – Dendy
Riding the perverse line between bizarre, awkward and darkly funny, this award-winning film follows the strange antics of three siblings brought up by their misguided parents in complete isolation from the rest of the world.
An allegorical exploration of the perils of the nanny-state or just a perverse tale about over-protective parents, Giorgos Lanthimos has produced an unusual and thought-provoking film about three young adults kept in a state of induced infantilism. Unable to leave their family home, the three siblings – a boy and two girls in their early twenties – invent bizarre games and receive their understanding of the world from video tapes. When their father – the only person able to leave the house – brings a woman back home in order to satisfy his son’s sexual urges, the carefully controlled world starts to disintegrate.
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Cannes Film Festival – Best Film, Un Certain Regard.
Sarajevo Film Festival – Special Jury Prize
“A clearly present and utterly devious sense of humor” Boyd Van Hoeij, Variety
“Dogtooth is inspiringly idiosyncratic, an ambiguous merger of absurdist humour and darkest, probing drama.” David O’Connell, Screen Fanatic
DOGTOOTH
(KYNODONTAS)
Director Giorgos Lanthimos Producers Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Giorgos Tsourianis
Cast Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papuolia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis Print Source Madman Australia
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This was bizarre! With a very strange ending … It was compelling to watch though – it kept my attention the whole time.
One of the most dissapointing films I have seen in ten years of attending festival.
How did this ever win anything at Cannes.
Very amateurish, no real story & badly filmed, while it may have been digitally filmed a lot of it looked like it was recorded on a vcr video.
Before seeing this I tried to think of any good Greek films I have seen & can’t think of any (I actually thought this film could change my perseption but it definately didn’t).