New Restoration

“The most original, challenging, and perverse film of the year … It can be viewed as absurdist horror or the cruelest of comedies.”

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

The flash-bang existence of the Greek Weird Wave, a critics-ascribed movement born from the tumult of a country on economic life support, is unthinkable without Yorgos Lanthimos’s international breakthrough. With shades of Haneke-like distantiation and Noé-esque extremity, Dogtooth stages a deranged, domestic nightmare within the suburban home of a Greek nuclear family. There, a couple goes to disturbing lengths to keep their children — a son and two daughters, each now in early adulthood — ignorant of the outside world, fabricating lies and enforcing bizarre rules to prevent them from traversing the garden hedge. When a stranger enters the fold, the introduction of sex and pop culture sets catastrophe in motion. A thoroughly perverse, pitch-black parable of family dynamics and walled-in ideology, Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated picture catapulted the director to the top rung, a station he’s occupied ever since. This new restoration brings the film’s warped vision back into blistering focus.

In Greek with English subtitles

Prix Un Certain Regard
Cannes 2009

“Lanthimos has crafted a stunningly provocative and at times witty play on the inspirations that make us who we are … Special and troubling.”

Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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