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In the years since its release, Dogtooth has aged like a fine, poisoned wine. It directly paved the way for Lanthimos’ English-language films: The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), and the Oscar-winning Poor Things (2023). Watch those films, and you see the DNA of Dogtooth: the stilted dialogue, the bizarre rules, the sex as clinical transaction, the sudden shocking violence. dogtooth -2009-
But more than that, Dogtooth arrived at a prophetic moment. Released just as the 2009 Greek financial crisis was spiraling into national trauma, the film’s themes of imprisonment, austerity, and the collapse of trusted institutions resonated deeply. The film asked: What happens to a society that cuts itself off from the world? It gave a terrifying answer. For a film club or Letterboxd comment:
Many critics read Dogtooth as a metaphor for: In the years since its release, Dogtooth has