Dogtooth (2009) ( Kynodontas ) ( Dog Tooth )

Dogtooth (2009) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Kynodontas
Alternate Title: Dog Tooth
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Greece ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Giorgos Lanthimos

Written By:
Efthymis Filippou
Giorgos Lanthimos

Actors:
Christos Stergioglou ..... Father
Michele Valley ..... Mother
Aggeliki Papoulia ..... Older Daughter
Mary Tsoni ..... Younger Daughter
Hristos Passalis ..... Son
Anna Kalaitzidou ..... Christina
Alexander Voulgaris ..... Dog trainer

Synopsis:

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 disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina enlists the elder daughter for some girl-on-girl action, carelessly disturbing the domestic balance. Soon enough, sex has spread throughout the household like fire. Next stop: rebellion.

A mother and father, desperate to shelter their three children from the outside world, create a self styled utopia inside the walls of their secluded compound. The three children have never ventured outside and spend their days being educated and entertained within the limits of a strict and suppressive system concocted by their father. So far removed are they from the real world, they have their own vocabulary and believe cats to be dangerous wild man eating predators, aeroplanes flying overhead to be toys and small yellow flowers to be zombies. When the father invites a trusted outsider into their home to service his son's sexual urges, the domestic balance is disturbed and the protective bubble surrounding their lives soon implodes.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 24 September, 2010.

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