Review of Dogtooth (2009) by Michael B — 24 Mar 2011
A powerful, Freudian fable about the effects of isolation and/or homeschooling, Dogtooth concerns a family in which the two sisters and their brother are never allowed to leave the house. Their parents feed them a myth about how they cannot leave until their dogtooth falls out, an event that will never happen.
The father brings in a co-worker who he pays to have sex with his son--the girls never receive such gratification despite being adults as well. Kafkaesque is probably the first adjective that springs to mind, but Dogtooth is so much more.
It is powerfully minimilastic film in the tradition of Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier that explores our most deep-seated, sexual phobias. A brutally riveting and artistic narrative about the nature of control and the desires that drive human nature, Dogtooth is a film that is equally political and psychoanalytical.
This review of Dogtooth (2009) was written by Michael B on 24 Mar 2011.
Dogtooth has generally received positive reviews.
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