Dogtooth
Parents keep their three grown children imprisoned on the family estate, inventing a false language and world to seal them off from everything outside.
Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard Prize, 2009
A husband and wife raise their three adult children in total isolation behind the walls of the family compound, feeding them a fabricated vocabulary and a false picture of the outside world so that the children never wish to leave. The arrival of an outsider begins to crack the arrangement.
The film works as a parable of the family as a sealed, incestuous system that controls language and reality to bind its children, and of what it costs to leave one. It gives a therapist a stark image of enmeshment and the manufacture of a private reality. It won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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- 2009
- Greece
- Greek
- Film