Dogtooth

River Oaks Theater : 15th Anniversary Remaster Second time around this one really clicked for me. Yorgos has an incredible knack for taking seemingly simple ideas (such as authoritarian parenting) and taking them to their most absurd extremes. This one is a horror film just as much as it is a black comedy. For every awkward interaction makes you fumble between wanting to laugh or reel back in horror. The cinematography is stellar and just like the alien and stilted dialogue, very off putting. The camera’s pov is often off kilter inducing this sense of surrealism through the whole of the film. Every time I watch one of Yorgos’s more Yorgos type movies I am just mesmerized the whole time, regardless of how traumatic some of this shit is lol.