Marching in The Dark
$11.50
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
2009, Greece, 97 min
Greek with English subtitles
Rated R
A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents’ isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen — an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a saltshaker is a “telephone,” an armchair is “the sea”) — until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son’s libidinal urges, starts offering forbidden VHS tapes in return for sexual favors.
Content warning: Dogtooth contains disturbing themes including psychological abuse, sexual content, incest, and scenes of violence and self-harm. Viewer discretion is advised.
