Cannes 2009: Dogtooth

Twitch also has a NSFW trailer for Dogtooth, the winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

Dogtooth is a sort of comedy(?) that tells the story of three 20-somethings who’ve lived their whole lives in an entirely insular world of confinement staged by their parents. It didn’t get the attention of Lars von Trier’s controversial Antichrist, but according to Karina Longworth, that’s just because no one was looking.

Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Greece
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Starring Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni and Anna Kalaitzidou
Un Certain Regard

Karina Longworth, SpoutBlog.

With its depiction of forced incest, two explicitly not-fake images of sex acts, liberation via very bloody self-harm and the on-screen disemboweling of a housecat, Greek Un Certain Regard title Dogtooth should by all rights be giving Antichrist’s raspberry to art film seriousness a run for its money — and maybe it would be, if anyone was paying attention. It’s not much of a surprise that Dogtooth, the only narrative I’ve seen that really feels like it represents the work an emerging new talent, is rocking a low profile: after all, it is a star-less film on a sidebar by a virtually unknown director (Giorgos Lanthimos) and thus seems to have been seen thus far by very few members of the press. It’s also done no great service by its description in the March guide, which gives no clue to the most exciting thing about it: it’s essentially science-fiction.

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Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Dogtooth