{"id":4436,"date":"2016-11-11T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:15:46","slug":"dogtooth-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4436","title":{"rendered":"Dogtooth-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dogtooth-2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Yorgos Lanthimos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Christos Stergioglou,\u00a0 <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Michelle Valley<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Top 10 Most Disturbing Films #9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #515<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70119657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4437\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70119657-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70119657\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70119657-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70119657.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed November 11, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dogtooth is a Greek drama nominated for the 2010 Best Foreign Film Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>The film is not for the weak at heart and is most bizarre and disturbing- troubling even.<\/p>\n<p>But after digesting it, I realized how much I appreciated its creativity.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the story of\u00a0three siblings who are homeschooled and shut out from the rest of the world by their overprotective parents. The teenage kids are curious, damaged, and sad.<\/p>\n<p>They know no other world besides the one their parents created for them.<\/p>\n<p>Certain words mean certain things to them- a language of their own. It challenges the art of parental control as the kids&#8217; curiosity builds and builds.<\/p>\n<p>The movie itself is very difficult to follow (non-linear) yet is mesmerizing and perverse.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Some subject matter can be hard to take for some (incest, cruelty to animals, full-frontal nudity).<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was a fascinating and bravely made film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:<\/strong> Best Foreign Language Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogtooth-2009 Director Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Christos Stergioglou,\u00a0 Michelle Valley Top 10 Most Disturbing Films #9 Scott&#8217;s Review #515 Reviewed November 11, 2016 Grade: A- Dogtooth is a Greek drama nominated for the 2010 Best Foreign Film Academy Award. The film is not for the weak at heart and is most bizarre and disturbing- troubling even. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dogtooth-2009<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,192,2964,35,213,11788,162],"tags":[8153,2967,12392,5342,12393,12391,2806],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-movie-reviews","category-dramas","category-greek","category-foreignfilms","category-foreign-dramas","category-psychological-drama","category-disturbingfilms","tag-9-most-disturbing-film","tag-angeliki-papoulia","tag-christos-passalis","tag-christos-stergioglou","tag-mary-tsoni","tag-michelle-valley","tag-yorgos-lanthimos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24046,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/24046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}