Dogtooth (2009) 4K Restoration
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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Run Time: 97 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2010 Language: Greek
Starring: Christos Passalis, Christos Stergioglou, Mary Tsoni, Michele Valley
Country: Greece
Language: Greek
About the film:
“By far the most original film I’ve seen in a long time.” – John Waters
“A fantastic comedy.” – David Lynch
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.
Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, 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. Colour grading by Gregory Arvanitis and Thimios Bakatakis. Digital sound restoration by Landros Ntounis. The restoration process was supervised by the director, Yorgos Lanthimos.
About the filmmaker:
Four-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1973 and studied film and television direction at Stavrakos Film School. Since 1995, he has directed numerous short films (including 2001’s Uranisco Disco), experimental theatre, music videos, and TV commercials; his first feature film was 2005’s internationally acclaimed Kinetta.
Lanthimos gained international attention in 2009 with his second feature film, Dogtooth, winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. His first English-language feature film, The Lobster, presented in competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, won the Jury Prize and received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2017. That same year, The Killing of a Sacred Deer premiered in competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay prize. In 2019, The Favourite received a leading ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and won Best Actress for Olivia Colman.
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