Director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ breakthrough feature, the unsettling 2009 domestic psychological thriller Dogtooth, is clawing its way back into theaters this month with a 4K restoration, Indiewire has announced today. Kino Lorber will release the 4K restoration of Dogtooth in NYC at IFC Center on June 20 before rolling out to select cities nationwide. In Dogtooth, […]
Director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ breakthrough feature, the unsettling 2009 domestic psychological thriller Dogtooth, is clawing its way back into theaters this month with a 4K restoration, Indiewire has announced today.
Kino Lorber will release the 4K restoration of Dogtooth in NYC at IFC Center on June 20 before rolling out to select cities nationwide.
In Dogtooth, “A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father’s who makes regular visits to sexually service the son (Hristos Passalis). Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) hatches a plan to escape.”
Lanthimos co-wrote the film with frequent collaborator Efthymis Filippou (The Killing of a Sacred Deer