Dogtooth 4K UHD
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Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence ‘the sea’ refers to a large armchair and ‘zombies’ are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the über-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance. Dogtooth 4K UHD
Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by Boo Productions and mk2 Films – Supervised by Director Yorgos Lanthimos! Dogtooth 4K UHD
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.
Special Features:
• Booklet Interview with Director Yorgos Lanthimos (courtesy of Letterboxd)
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• Audio Commentary with Stars Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis
• Audio Commentary by Film Critic Adam Nayman
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
• 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
Additional information
| MPAA rating : | NR (Not Rated) |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions : | 0.54 x 6.8 x 5.3 inches; 4 ounces |
| Director : | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Media Format : | 4K |
| Run time : | 1 hour and 37 minutes |
| Release date : | September 30, 2025 |
| Actors : | Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley |
| Subtitles: : | English |
| Studio : | Kino Classics |
| ASIN : | B0FKJBT3TV |
| Number of discs : | 1 |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #12 in Drama Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews: | (1,159) |
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Thomas H. Fields –
Not Exactly a Wholesome Family Comedy
This is a family movie, but it’s about a highly unusual family. The children are cut off from the outside world, kept in ignorance of what’s really out there, by their parents. Some kids really are brought up in isolation, but this family takes it to an extreme. The result is some strange and disturbing scenes.
One person found this helpful
Wayne Schenewerk –
A film like no other.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009) is a film unlike any other I have ever seen; provocative and disturbing, yet oddly comical. There is no way to describe the plot, nor should I, since part of the experience of Dogtooth is trying to decipher exactly what one is watching. I will volunteer only, since you’ll find this on the DVD case or film synopsis, that it involves a family living mostly apart from the outside world, within a walled compound. The film is in Greek and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It won Best Film in the “Un Certain Regard” category at Cannes, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the best foreign language film category.Filmed mostly with static camera shots, naturalistic, with no screen music except what comes from radios, phonographs, or the characters themselves. Frequently the actors are partly outside the frame, their heads or the tops of heads cut off. It is, in a sense, an anti-film. Nothing you will see is predictable. The flow of the narrative is punctuated sometimes by disturbing outbreaks of violence, and the few sex scenes are completely matter of fact, realistic, yet bizarre and unsettling.If you take this one on, be prepared for a stretch and a challenge. You may feel, at the end,as shut off from meaning as if you had just spent an hour and a half on another planet.I have my ideas of what the movie is trying to say, but it probably will have a different meaning for others. For references in tone, I might suggest the films of Michael Haneke, or “Gummo” by Harmony Korine. For some reason, while watching, I was reminded of an equally strange Todd Haynes film called “Safe,” perhaps by the growing sense of isolation that the film imparts. But these are just cinematic echoes, and useless in preparing you for the dramatic puzzle, the cinematic challenge that Dogtooth presents.
8 people found this helpful
Erin Q Hinson –
One of my favorite movies
I can understand that this movie might not be for everyone. It’s been a favorite of mine for years. The way the director blends absurdity and brutality might come off as bizarre to some people. However this movie is not entirely outlandish and not entirely absurd. The family relationships and dysfunctions and the parents’ fear come across to me as three dimensional and plausible within the movie’s reality.Abuse survivors might want to learn more about the story before watching the film.Whether the film rings autobiographical bells or not (hopefully not), it’s entertaining.
One person found this helpful
Leehon –
A Very Original Foreign Dark Comedy
This movie is extremely disturbing, extremely hilarious, and extremely thought-provoking; all things that make the dark comedy genre a fascinating one. There’s not much that I can say about this film that hasn’t already been said, but I highly recommend it for anyone who’s looking for an experimental movie that offers many different ways to make the watcher feel very uncomfortable.
michele boisoneau –
Weird movie
Weird movie truthfully. But someone recommended it so I watched it.
Binky Chottorrhœhia –
“Your mother is pregnant with twin girls and a dog.”
A very beautiful movie, and intensely disturbing, yet artfully restrained. Perhaps the most notable thing about the movie is that it has absolutely no exposition whatsoever. You’re just presented with this family, a relatively robust and comfortable upper middle class family living in a gorgeous Greek country home with a massive garden and pool. There are weird things. For instance, the children have been taught to use words differently, specific words, words such as “telephone”, which is something the parents don’t want the kids to know exists. And then there are the liaisons that the father seems to be arranging for his son. He takes a female security guard from his work and brings her over to have sex with the son on a regular basis.Oh, and yes: the three children, a boy and two fraternal girl twins, don’t seem to have any names.It’s a fascinating narrative situation that Lyle Kessler explored in his play Orphans; the children have been systematically isolated and brainwashed their whole lives. Their mother is in on it, but its clear that the father is the instigator and driving force behind it all. He’s not your stereotypical tyrant father. He does not shout or torment the children for torment’s sake; he even brings an element of whimsy and wonder to the lives of the children, as when he leads them to believe the swimming pool is invaded by sea bream or that airplanes have dropped out of the sky and onto the lawn. He does, however, control his family by constantly pushing them toward his version of perfection, by ruthlessly beating his children in the rare instances when they do go against him, and by, in a pivotal point of the movie, forcing the eldest twin (known simply as “The Eldest”) to do something nobody should ever have to.Even with these climactic atrocities that reveal the father’s true character, the most disturbing parts of the movie are the quiet ones, such as when the father says he will play the children a recording of their grandfather singing. He puts on a record of Frank Sinatra, and as Old Blue Eyes croons, the father translates Fly Me To The Moon into Greek, translating the song about love’s exultation into another piece of brainwashing about the cruciality of insular family life; or at the parents’ wedding anniversary when the twins dance and all the movements are so strange, childlike, alien to any recognizable style of dance from the outside world.If you can’t take quiet, European art movies, this one is definitely not up your alley, but if you can, this one delivers the goods.
33 people found this helpful
Ada Ardor –
Curisosity killed the cat. It is also educated, informed, and rescued. Very strange but entertaining film.
This film was totally bizarre, but also utterly fascinating, and I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was great filmmaking. I was mesmerized all the way through.I usually dislike experimental films, but it was like a slow moving catastrophe, totally hypnotic, which had me entranced. From the lies the parents tell their children, to their gullibility, and also their interaction with their parents and with each other.The performances are perfect. You wouldn’t believe if there was a false step. Totally amoral, crazy parents hide their children away from the world, inventing lies, so their children do not go beyond the gate of their own house. Cats are evil, and they should not trespass beyond the border of their gate. Only the loss of a supposed dogtooth would let them leave.Yet, the parents enjoy pornography, and allow their son to indulge in sex with a stranger, who they bring to the house just for that purpose. The oldest child blackmails the young woman arranged to have sex with the son for things. She did not know her life was so limited. And she breaks free.I don’t understand the parents’ reasoning, especially in light of what they let their son to do, and the fact that they were willing to sacrifice their daughters to perversity.There is no reasoning. They are in their own world.The film did not conclude in either a positive or negative note.Kind of brilliant really.
3 people found this helpful
Nick K. –
Even the title of the movie was lost in translation…
This film has been critically acclaimed for reasons that one may never fully understand. From the perspective of an individual who speaks Greek and has grown-up a Greek-American, the concepts of this movie were half-birthed at best. For example, this film intends to be an exaggerated allegory to show the extremes of sheltering one’s family. Unfortunately for the viewer, the concept was far better than the implementation as the story eventually becomes an incestuous farce with underdeveloped reasons as to why the parents raised their children in this manner. To that point, the story is never really presented so “lessons” can be learned. Having watched this lengthy seemingly pointless movie, one can expect to leave this film with an unfulfilling void. As for the title of this movie, the word they were looking for is “canine.” It just clarifies how disjointed and poor this film was knowing that even the translated title was not thought all the way through. If this is what it takes to win awards, perhaps the assessment process needs to be evaluated.
4 people found this helpful
Sheri –
Such a unique vibe
One of my favorites. Disturbing in its own way!
Allen Garfield’s #1 fan. –
The nuclear family as a cult.
The new (2019) special edition from Kino includes special features such as a new audio commentary with stars Papoulia and Passalis; a new conversation between Lanthimos and critic Kent Jones (courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center); archival interview with Lanthimos; deleted scenes; and trailers (one for the film, and the other for Alps). It also includes a reversible cover featuring the original poster.If there ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one – this was Oscar nominated for best foreign in 2009.A study of human conditioning in extremis, Dogtooth is set almost entirely within the confines of a stately home just outside the city limits. There, walled off by impressive shrubbery and a single gate, live three unnamed siblings and their parents. Though the brother (Christos Passalis) and his two sisters (Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni) are all within a stone’s throw of 20, there’s a childlike innocence to them, and it’s no wonder, for not once in their lives have they ever set foot beyond their property line.With the exception of a telephone hidden away within a cupboard in the parents’ bedroom, there’s no access to the outside world. The kids seem fairly well-educated, though they’ve inexplicably been taught some odd vocabulary substitutions by mum and dad, such as ‘keyboard’ for female genitalia, or ‘zombie’ for a small yellow flower found in the garden. They’ve also grown up with a mythology that the only safe way to venture outside of the grounds is by car, for lurking beyond the walls is a vicious monster, known as a cat, that kills instantaneously. And one is only old enough to leave the house when either of their canines have fallen out and grown back. In other words, never.The father (who manages a factory of some sort) is the sole family member to leave the house on a regular basis, and the only other person the children have ever seen is Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), a security guard from the factory who is brought to the house (blindfolded, naturally) on occasion to have sex with the son.The youngsters spend their days creating silly competitive games, such as inhaling anesthesia to see who will wake up first, or engaging in various obedience exercises orchestrated by their parents. Their reality is solely a product of their parent’s imagination, which includes the belief that Frank Sinatra is their grandfather and that the toy airplanes they find in their garden are those that they see flying overhead.Lathimos gives us no clue as to why the parents have raised their children under these conditions. There’s no indication that they are part of some religious cult, nor do they seem particularly insane. Is it merely a case of over-protectionism stemming from paranoia, or a radical example of isolationism? That we don’t know their motivation leaves us unsure how to respond to the film, for nearly every scene can be read as either darkly comical or disturbingly tragic. The framing is equally disconcerting, with heads often disappearing off the top of the screen, cut-off just as they are from society. Given the siblings’ circumstances, it’s unsurprising that there are hints of incest, but even beyond the film’s (very) explicit sequences there’s a sexually unsettling tone throughout.The appearance of two well-known Hollywood blockbusters from the Eighties will be the catalyst for the events in the final act, but Lanthimos isn’t going to let us off easily. The film’s inconclusive ending is perfectly suited to the world it so wonderfully creates.
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