Having seen Lanthimos’ twisted 2016 rom-com The Lobster, I still cannot claim to have to have witnessed a more brutally honest, suffocatingly grim, and yet, oddly funny social satire in my life than the brilliance, otherworldly absurdity that is Dogtooth.
If you have ever seen a movie by The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos, you know that the filmmaker’s work can be quite bizarre, in either a shocking or laughable manner (or even a mix of both), but always thought-provokingly clever, nonetheless.
In that regard, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s most defining effort must be this Greek-language family drama, which follows three siblings nearing adulthood who have been kept in lifelong isolation from the outside world (and the mere basis of reality in general) by their parents, who give the phrase “overly protective” a new, infuriatingly devout meaning.