Cinema Village
22 E 12th St
212.924.3363
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Dogtooth
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June 25, 2010 – July 11, 2010
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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“Over-protective parenting is given new meaning in this mesmerizing surreal satire from Greece. As the film unravels, you discover that the three teenage siblings you're observing have been raised in captivity, an environment free of what their parents consider to be bad influences. Their days are spent exercising, cutting appendages off of dolls, and playing with anesthesia, while their parents arbitrarily misguide and manipulate them. As the outside world begins seeping in, the crazy glue the father manufactures starts losing hold. Original, provocative, and completely insane, this award-winning modest budget film is sure to illicit a smile one minute and a squirm the next.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill
Dogtooth says:
A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen — an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a "telephone," an armchair is "the sea") — until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son's libidinal urges, plans the seeds of rebellion by trading VHS tapes for sexual favors.
