Dogtooth (2009)

	Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos	COUNTRY Greece GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Dogtooth RUNNING TIME 97 minutes
	Produced by: Iraklis Mavroidis Athina Rachel Tsangari Yorgos Tsourianis
	Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos Efthymis Filippou

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 revolves around three young adults whose parents have raised them in a bizarre prison of mislore and absurd disciplinary regimes. The film is engaging insofar as you find the children's behaviour believable, and Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos offers both perceptive observations and invites alternate, metaphorical readings. He does not, however, provide 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, leaves the film feeling incomplete and suggests that, despite Lanthimos' unquestionable creativity and curiosity, he isn't really sure what he wants to communicate.