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Dogtooth” (Kynodontas), which premiered at LAGFF in June 2010, is the official Greek film entry for the Best Foreign Language Film 2010 Academy Awards®. Combining the gripping, unpredictable tension of a prime Polanski thriller, the perfectly-executed production design of a Wes Anderson contraption and the dangerous freaky-deakiness of a David Lynch nightmare, “Dogtooth” is easily one of the most unique filmic creations of the last few years, spinning forth from the dark imagination of new Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos.
On par with “Antichrist” and “Enter the Void” for sheer audacity, this hyper-stylized, intoxicating mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy is the story of three teenagers perpetually confined to their parents’ isolated country estate, and kept under strict rule and regimen — an inscrutable scenario suggesting a warped experiment in social conditioning. 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 starts offering forbidden VHS tapes(!) as a key to the outside world.
If you haven’t seen “Dogtooth” yet, here’s your chance to see it in January in Los Angeles at the Cinefamily (The Silent Movie Theatre). www.cinefamily.org
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90036
323-655-2510
Dates & Time
Friday, Jan 7th, 7:30pm & 9:45pm
Saturday, Jan 8th, 7:30pm & 9:45pm
Sunday, Jan 9th, 1:30pm
Monday, Jan 10th, 7:30pm
Tuesday, Jan 11th, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Jan 12th, 11:00pm
Thursday, Jan 13th, 7:30pm & 9:45pm
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