Dogtooth (2009)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Father	Christos Stergioglou
Mother	Michelle Valley	½
Older Daughter	Aggeliki Papoulia
Younger Daughter	Mary Tsoni
Son	Christos Passalis	½
Christina	Anna Kalaitzidou	½

Review

This fictional study of human behaviour evolves around three young adults whose parents have raised them in a bizarre prison of mislore and absurd disciplinary regimes. The film is interesting in as much as you find the children's behaviour believable, and Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos offers both perceptive observations and invites to alternate, metaphorical readings. He does not, however, give us any background information or psychological profiles on the two perhaps most interesting individuals in his character study: the parents. And this, along with the abrupt ending, gives the film an incompleteness which suggests that despite Lanthimos' unquestionable creativity and curiosity, he isn't really sure what he wants to communicate.