Dogtooth

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

2009 / 97min / 35mm

Long before he became an arthouse brand name commanding big budgets, Lanthimos had his first palpable international success with this, his skin-crawling third film, about a despotic taskmaster father who, for reasons known only to himself, has kept his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual stunted childhood by immuring them inside their fenced-in family compound from which, inspired by an outside visitor, they begin to plot a “jailbreak.” “Takes the concept of home schooling to squirmy extremes… Dogtooth is like a car crash. You cannot look away.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times