Dogtooth

Data
Title: Kynodontas
Year: 2009 (Greece); 2010 (US)
Length: 94 minutes
Director: Giorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Giorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou
Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou
Music: non-original music
Oscars: nomination for Best Foreign Language Film (2011)
I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Synopsis: three siblings have been raised in bizarre isolation



My reaction
Concept:
Story: There's not really a story, just a series of episodes.
Characters:
Dialog:
Pacing: It's such a weird movie, it's really hard to judge this. If anything in the movie were ever at all ordinary (and nothing ever is), it would probably be painfully slow.
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Acting:
Music:
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay, ). One thing I can say for certain is I have never seen a movie anything like this before. It's very interesting, and very well made, but too disturbing to be entertaining. In a DVD bonus feature, the director said he wanted to make you laugh, then a second later feel wrong about laughing at it. That about sums it up.
Objective Rating (Average):