Whatever director Yorgos Lanthimos touches promises to be different. Even before he rose to fame in Hollywood with films such as Poor Things and The Favourite, he caused a stir with the Greek film Dogtooth. disturbing satire about a dysfunctional family was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 as Best Foreign Language Film and will finally be released on Blu-ray in a special edition on October 24th. Bonus material includes deleted scenes, a trailer and a booklet.
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Dogtooth relies on a calm staging of an absolutely disturbing family story
For Lanthimos, Dogtooth was his international breakthrough. The sterile and very calm way in which he directs the grotesque thriller develops a Intensity of horrorwhich is both shocking and captivating. Despite all the cruelty, the satirical family drama is interspersed with all sorts of moments of comedy, for example when the son bravely confronts a kitten that was sold to the children by their parents as a bloodthirsty creature.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, Dogtooth received a Critics score of 93 percent. It says, among other things, that Dogtooth is too disturbing for some, but “as astonishingly original as modern filmmaking can be.” And anyone who gets involved in the grotesque family drama will not be able to put the film down so quickly.
This is what the grotesque family drama Dogtooth is about
The three siblings of a rich family do not know the world outside the garden fence. Their rich parents have made them believe in lies and bizarre parenting methods. Fear of the outside world But more and more questions about life outside the luxurious villa complex arise. The siblings become more and more curious, while the parents do everything in their power to maintain their web of lies.
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