Dogtooth -2009- — _best_

Weaknesses

Released in 2009, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Greek Weird Wave . The absurdist psychological drama shocked global audiences, winning the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival and earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. dogtooth -2009-

: The children are taught that "sea" means a leather armchair, "motorway" is a strong wind, and "excursion" is a type of floor material. : Premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

: Premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , winning the Un Certain Regard prize. This stylistic choice creates a deeply alienating effect,

Dogtooth immediately established the signature hallmarks of Yorgos Lanthimos’s cinema: a deadpan, affectless tone; stilted, unnatural dialogue delivered by emotionally repressed characters; and an unnerving mixture of cold brutality and dark absurdist humor. The characters speak in short, choppy sentences without inflection, and their movements are often wooden and ritualistic. This stylistic choice creates a deeply alienating effect, forcing viewers to view the family’s horrific situation from a strange, ironic distance. Lanthimos has said that he wanted to observe how possible it is to control people’s minds and distort their perception simply through the information they are given, and the film’s clinical, detached style reflects this scientific curiosity.