Dogtooth (2009)
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos · 98 min · Drama
52.9 TOPICAL score · #1,723 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Dogtooth (2009, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos) has a TOPICAL score of 52.9 - ranked 1,723 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on lasting engagement and audience, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 2 nominations. Critics: 93% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.7/10 critics' average · Metacritic 73. Audiences: TMDB 7/10 (2,712 ratings) · IMDb 7.1/10. Wikipedia covers it in 31 languages.
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- Critics93% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.7/10 critics' average · Metacritic 73
- AudienceTMDB 7/10 (2,712 ratings) · IMDb 7.1/10
- Awards0 wins, 2 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 31 languages
- Still read51,092 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Christos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia