29th Nov 2009 8:00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes, DOGTOOTH is an absurd, hilarious, discomforting and inventively provocative film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film follows the lives of a family whose house on the edge of the city is enclosed by high walls and the only person allowed to leave is the father. While he goes out to work in a factory, the mother stays at home with the son and two daughters, keeping them inside and ‘safe’ from the evils of the outside world. For the children, in their late teens and early twenties, everything beyond the walls of their home is a threat and language has undergone a radical makeover in their years of home schooling (a rifle is a white bird, a zombie is a yellow flower, a highway is a strong wind, cats are the enemy…). Considering his son to have reached an age where his sexual needs should be met, the father brings home Christine, a security guard from his factory, but her interaction with the family soon threatens their insular world. Lanthimos’ film is a startlingly sharp piece of imaginative insanity, as the events instigated by the unhinged parents swing between the weirdly comical and the repulsive.
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