Dogtooth is a Greek art-house movie.
Dad has brought his 3 children (2 daughters and a son) to adulthood by sheltering them from the outside world in a walled compound. Fair enough - an interesting idea to play with. This has involved teaching them wrong words for everyday things and also ideas like if they stray outside the compound they will be eaten by man's greatest enemies, cats. Huh? Disbelief becomes considerably more difficult to suspend at this point.
Dad brings in a woman from outside to provide son with sexual release, and she turns out to be the catalyst to introduce outside influences which ultimately fracture the strange but otherwise operational "family" unit.
There is some strong meat here - sudden and quite shocking moments of violence, a fair amount of nudity and some moderately explicit sexual material. This sits within the odd story referred to above, some mannered acting and direction, and an irritating non-resolution.
The film is not without merit: neither is it wholly successful, however. And, to be sure, it is entirely an acquired taste.
Dad has brought his 3 children (2 daughters and a son) to adulthood by sheltering them from the outside world in a walled compound. Fair enough - an interesting idea to play with. This has involved teaching them wrong words for everyday things and also ideas like if they stray outside the compound they will be eaten by man's greatest enemies, cats. Huh? Disbelief becomes considerably more difficult to suspend at this point.
Dad brings in a woman from outside to provide son with sexual release, and she turns out to be the catalyst to introduce outside influences which ultimately fracture the strange but otherwise operational "family" unit.
There is some strong meat here - sudden and quite shocking moments of violence, a fair amount of nudity and some moderately explicit sexual material. This sits within the odd story referred to above, some mannered acting and direction, and an irritating non-resolution.
The film is not without merit: neither is it wholly successful, however. And, to be sure, it is entirely an acquired taste.