Kynodontas
Yorgos Lanthimos
The father, the mother and their three children live in the outskirts of a town. Their house is surrounded by a high fence. The children have never been outside the fence. Their, education, their leisure time, their physical training, all comply with the model imposed by their parents. The children think that the planes that fly over their house are toys and that zombies are little yellow flowers. Only one person is allowed into the compound: Christina, who works as a security agent in the father's factory…
With : Christos Stergioglou, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Anna Kalaitzidou, Hristos Passalis, Michele Valley
Screenplay : Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Image : Thimios Bakatakis
Editing : Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Screenplay : Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Image : Thimios Bakatakis
Editing : Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Production : Boo Productions, Greek Film Center, Horsefly Productions
Distribution: Mk2
Distribution: Mk2
Following Kinetta, Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's second film won the Un Certain Regard prize in Cannes in 2009. Kynodontas (Dogtooth) describes in a way which is both comical and terrifying the day to day life of a family living self-sufficiently in a rich property. A possible parable for the “dictatorship of the colonels”, the film functions thanks to a series of rules invented arbitrarily and pushed to the point of explosion. In this fable on emancipation, it is a poetic and burlesque logic which guides this calm narrative to its chilling end.