Dogtooth (Blu-ray)
Brand New HD Master by Boo Productions and mk2 Films – Supervised by Director Yorgos Lanthimos!
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar® winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son’s sexual urges, the family’s engineered “reality” begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.
Restored in 4K from the 35mm camera and sound negatives by Boo Productions and mk2 Films at Asterisk* Post and I Hear Voices sound studio. Color grading by Gregory Arvanitis and Thimios Bakatakis. Digital sound restoration by Leandros Ntounis. The restoration process was supervised by the director, Yorgos Lanthimos.
- Booklet Interview with Director Yorgos Lanthimos (courtesy of Letterboxd)
- Audio Commentary with Stars Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis
- Audio Commentary by Film Critic Adam Nayman
- Yorgos Lanthimos in conversation with Kent Jones (2019, courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center)
- Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos (2009)
- Deleted scenes
- Trailers
- Yorgos Lanthimos - Director
- Yorgos Lanthimos - Writer
- Efthymis Filippou - Writer
- Christos Stergioglou - Actor
- Michele Valley - Actor
- Angeliki Papoulia - Actor
- Christos Passalis - Actor
- Mary Tsoni - Actor
- Anna Kalaitzidou - Actor
Reviews
"A fantastic comedy"
"By far the most original film I've seen in a long time."
“By turns hilarious, macabre and baffling”
"A Stunner! Perfectly perverse"
"By far the most original film i've seen in a long time."
“Few movies convey such a deeply unnerving atmosphere in nearly every scene while simultaneously capitalizing on an absurd black comic sensibility.”
"Brilliant and bizarre... superbly acted and icily controlled.”
"Surreal! A cool, eerie commentary on family dynamics and the dangerous power of adolescent sexual curiosity."
Awards
2011 ACADEMY AWARDS - NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER - BEST FILM UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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