Dogtooth

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Dogtooth

2010

1h 34m

Comedy

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Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar® winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son's sexual urges, the family's engineered "reality" begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.

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Critics Consensus

It'll be too disturbing -- and meandering -- for some, but Dogtooth is as disturbing and startlingly original as modern filmmaking gets.

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Chase Hutchinson

Seattle Times

Jul 29

A disquieting film about family, all-consuming delusion and eventual violence, it’s Lanthimos at his best, most unflinching.

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

03/10/2011

3/4

To put it mildly, "Dogtooth" is not for everyone, but it can grow on you even if you think you've rejected its influence.

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

01/29/2011

4/4

This is the second feature for Lanthimos, and it's a leap from his well-received debut Kinetta. He skilfully doles out tantalizing pieces of information, keeping the viewer in a constant state of suspense and wonder.

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

Jan 19

B+

Yet, as absurdist, enigmatic and dark as Dogtooth gets, it’s mild in comparison to his recent work. But it still provides quite the palpably biting sting.

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Oscar O’Sullivan

Film Ireland Magazine

Nov 14

Dogtooth is unsettling in the best possible way.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Willamette Week

Sep 24

This is lo-fi unhinged Lanthimos, but like all his movies, Dogtooth exists somewhere between allegory and comedic exaggeration.

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dede W.

@RT37612585 Mar 3

So this movie wasn’t it, but it’s aight, good for a low indie budget people, the ending so confusing but I guess that’s how it is

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Lorenzo G

@garofalo_lor Jan 25

Sometimes it’s so nonsense and darkly funny that becomes uncomfortable. Especially in the useless violence scenes. You really must not emphasize to appreciate it. It benefits from Lanthimos’ ex-post legacy as you can now see this is his first meaningful signature to movies.

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Fernando D

@Maqroll Jan 6

I love this type of movies where the director comes with something unimaginable.

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Vinayak T

@Heisenberg88 Jan 3

Movie makes no sense, Bullshit.

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Jesse R

@jessrab Dec 18

I really loved Poor Things, The Favourite, and Bugonia, so I was hoping to enjoy some more of Lanthimos' work. I was pretty disappointed in Dogtooth, which I found quite dull. I don't know why the film was so lauded with praise when it came out, perhaps the incest material was considered so daring, but it really was a let-down compared to his later work.

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Chloe J

@RT49743520 Nov 5

I absolutely love obscure, weird, and indie thrillers/ psychological films. This film was not only an extreme bore, but relied far too heavily on the disturbing nature of incest. In my honest opinion the is not a horror, thriller, or even an obscure psychological film. It is a a film full of incest, boring setting/scenery, and terrible dialogue. you have to withstand all of this to get to the climax of the film, which is an hour in. There is hardly a plot aside from a disturbed isolated family. I suppose some like it for the reality of it happening, but I only found it strange. Far too graphic in areas that could have been implied. It was so long and boring I even thought about jumping into traffic considering I paid to watch it. If you like a movie that take an hour and 15 mins to get to a relevant point, you’ll love it. Otherwise it’s just an hour of terrible dialogue, gross and weird sex scenes, and boring camera shots (which I assume are supposed to be artistic). Once again, I love obscure, indie, and especially foreign films. I wanted to like Dogtooth so much but I really was bored the whole time.

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Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar® winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son's sexual urges, the family's engineered "reality" begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer: Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Giorgos Tsourianis
Screenwriter: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Greek Film Center, Horsefly Productions, Boo Productions
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Greek
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 25, 2010, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jun 20, 2025
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $112.4K
Runtime: 1h 34m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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