Dogtooth (2009)

It’s been almost two decades since a Yorgos Lanthimos movie could be called “experimental” in the formal sense. And yet most of the celebrated absurdist’s movies treat basic human relationships like an experiment. None more so than Dogtooth , his 2009 international breakout, which screens Sept. 27 at the Tomorrow Theater ahead of Lanthimos’ newest Emma Stone collaboration, Bugonia , hitting theaters Oct. 31.

Without rationale or explanation, Dogtooth drops the audience into the isolated compound of a cloistral Greek family, whose patriarch (Christos Stergioglou) has trapped his adult kids in a state of suspended childhood through brainwashing schemes. We assume he’s lied to them about the outside world’s dangers, though some lies seem just for kicks, like feeding

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