(Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009, Greece, 94 minutes)

New 4K restoration!

In October 2010, the Webster Film Series was the first movie theatre in St. Louis to run a Yorgos Lanthimos film, Dogtooth, and in the years since he has become one of the highest profile of auteurs, not to mention a favorite filmmaker of many Webster University students on the back of movies like Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and The Favourite. Dogtooth, his second feature made in his native Greece (and his first to receive a U.S. release), won Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2009 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars, but these plaudits don’t begin to hint at what a transgressive film this is. In brief, we follow three grown children of parents who deliberately keep them deeply sheltered in the family house and tell wild lies about the world outside. (An early tagline read “The cat is the most feared animal there is!”) When the father lets an outsider in to relieve his son of his sexual tensions, well, trouble inevitably ensues. Now showing in a brand new 4K restoration, Dogtooth remains Lanthimos’ best work in the eyes of many of those who have followed his career these past fifteen years.

In Greek with English subtitles.