Dogtooth (film)
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| Directed by | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Produced by | Iraklis Mavroidis Athina Rachel Tsangari Yorgos Tsourianis |
| Written by | Yorgos Lanthimos Efthymis Filippou |
| Starring |
Christos Stergioglou Michelle Valley Angeliki Papoulia Mary Tsoni Christos Passalis |
| Cinematography | Thimios Bakatatakis |
| Edited by | Yorgos Mavropsaridis |
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Boo Productions
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| Distributed by | Feelgood Entertainment |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
| Budget | €250,000 |
| Box office | $1.4 million |
Dogtooth (Greek: Κυνόδοντας, translit. Kynodontas) is a 2009 Greek film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos about a husband and wife who keep their children ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood. The film stars Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, and Christos Passalis.
Lanthimos' second feature film won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
A couple and their adult son and two adult daughters live in a fenced compound. The children have no knowledge of the outside world; their parents say they will be ready to leave once they lose a dogtooth, and that one can only leave safely by car. The children entertain themselves with endurance games, such as holding their hands under hot water. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence to whom they throw supplies. The parents reward good behaviour with stickers and bad with violence.
The father pays an employee of his factory, Christina, to come to the house and have sex with the son. Frustrated by the son's refusal to give her cunnilingus, Christina trades her headband with the elder daughter in exchange for cunnilingus from her. The elder daughter later convinces the younger daughter to lick her shoulder by bartering the headband. Later, the younger daughter volunteers to lick the elder again. The elder has nothing to offer in exchange, but the younger does not mind and experiments by licking other body parts.
The father visits a dog training facility and demands to have his dog returned. The trainer refuses because the dog has not finished its training, and asks: "Do we want an animal or a friend?"
When the children are terrified by a stray cat in the garden, the son kills it with a pair of pruning shears. Deciding to take advantage of the incident, the father shreds his clothes, covers himself in fake blood, and tells his children that their unseen brother was killed by a cat, the most dangerous creature. After he teaches them to bark on all fours to fend off cats, the family holds a memorial service for the brother.
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