It is the refusal to play this game that
makes Dogtooth feel so devastating, unique and fresh.
Ultimately, Borgman lacks the emotional and ideological underpinnings that
made Dogtooth and Funny Games so substantial and satisfying.
Not exact matches
Argyle or
dogtooth patterns in light and bright shades will
make your business style shine above the rest.
As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated
Dogtooth, and Alps) were each
made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew
made up of Yorgos's friends.
Lanthimos hails from Greece and has been
making provocative films for years, first bringing his break out hit
Dogtooth to the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
Dogtooth and The Lobster
made for uncomfortable viewing, but Yorgos Lanthimos mined new depths of nastiness with his anti-bourgeois horror The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
While Lanthimos doesn't
make any specific political allusions,
Dogtooth carries a lot of resonance in the Glenn Beck era, when people are living in paranoid bubbles of their own
making, bunkered down by ideology.
Melting the butter sauce is Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth), whose home - grown surrealism
makes the leap into English with panache.
I loved
Dogtooth and the one he
made before that, Kinetta — they showed a genuinely strange sensibility.
We're guessing
Dogtooth, still in the running,
made the shortlist in phase two of the voting process by the grace of that face - saving executive committee.
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Briefly: Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed Alps and
Dogtooth, is
making his first English - language feature.
Throwing a solid Hollywood cast into a surreal arthouse satire, acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth)
makes his English - language debut with a bang.
Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are
made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.
Yorgos Lanthimos» name has become synonymous with contemporary absurdism; the films that have
made him one of the most lauded filmmakers in recent years -
Dogtooth, Alps, and The Lobster - have mixed stories of families and relationships in the most strange of circumstances, combining black comedy, violence, and the crisis of identity.
Recent generations of art - house audiences have reveled in this theme since Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) and have
made the works of Yorgos Lanthimos, from
Dogtooth (2009) to The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) insufferably chic.
I am SUPER EXCITED about The Lobster, from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who
made the incredibly disturbing
Dogtooth.
The Lobster is from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who also
made the deeply creepy
Dogtooth.
No one
makes «em like Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek auteur / comedic sadist responsible for such cinephelic gems as
Dogtooth and The Lobster.
This quirky, allegorical premise is presented by the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos - the blazingly brilliant director of the 2010 foreign language Oscar nominee
Dogtooth,
making his English language debut - with the utmost matter - of - factness.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos has
made two of the weirdest, most compelling international art hits of the last half - decade, Alps and the glorious, terrifying
Dogtooth.
You knew Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek expat in London who
made «
Dogtooth,» was going to be up to something interesting with his first English - language film.
Disappointingly, Yorgos Lanthimos» latest isn't nearly as densely packed with ideas as The Lobster or
Dogtooth were — but the bone dry humour of the film comes close to
making up for that.