WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING
Yorgos Lanthimos'
DOGTOOTH
(Kynodontas)
(Greece | 2009 | 97 mins | R18 violence & sex scenes)
Wednesday 1 April at 7.30pm
University of Otago’s Colquhoun Lecture Theatre**
A husband and wife keep their children ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood.
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| | “Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son’s |
sexual urges, the family’s engineered ‘reality’ begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, Dogtoothpunctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative” – Kino Lorber.
“Blackly funny and lightly horrific, Dogtooth keeps you enthralled with the sheer brutal lunacy of the parents’ behaviour, which gradually and brilliantly tips over from the hilarious to the bizarre to the shocking to the sickening. Great stuff” – Matt Bochenski, Little White Lies. |
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FURTHER REVIEW
"The humour is not entirely cruel, or alienated. At one stage, the son tells the family over one of their meals that they have run out of black tint for his eyebrows, and that he can’t use blue tint – because that would be unnatural... The film is superbly shot, with some deadpan, elegant compositions, and intentionally skewiff framings of the “headless” variety that Lucrecia Martel used in her film The Headless Woman, imbibing both |
| the sociopathy of the characters and, at one remove, the reality-TV surveillance aesthetic of the Big Brother house. Lanthimos holds your attention with wonderfully inscrutable images, such as trees dappled with Hockneyesque sunlight from the swimming pool. It is a film about the essential strangeness of something society insists is the benchmark of normality: the family, a walled city state with its own autocratic rule and untellable secrets". |
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NOTE: The Society apologises to those who attended the screening last Wednesday of The Quiet Earth. We are still unsure whether it was the disc, the player or a combination which prevented the final moments of the film from being screened. We have asked the University to install a new player in the Colquhoun and have sourced another copy of the disc. We will re-screen the final sequence of The Quiet Earth following this Wednesday's screening of Dogtooth. This will be at approximately 9.15pm. Any holder of a three movie pass who attended The Quiet Earth screening will be permitted to attend a replacement screening of their choice during the year - just alert the Society officials at the desk outside the Colquhoun that you are taking advantage of this offer.
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A REMINDER: For Your Diary - The screening of Boat People will now take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 30 April. The University requires the Colquhoun lecture theatre for a Medical School terms test which has been scheduled on the Wednesday evening that week. We apologise for the disruption which this may cause for some members but it is a matter entirely outside our control. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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ADMISSION
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- or join at the door before any screening (cash only).
- you can also join at the OUSA office reception at the University of Otago (cash only).
Alternatively, you can purchase a Three-Film sampler ($25), which can be also be shared to bring two friends to one screening. The sampler does not expire and can be used over multiple years.
Membership includes generous discounts at Rialto Cinemas (from Monday to Friday) and the 2026 Dunedin Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival; and FREE entry to the 2026 screenings of all other affiliated New Zealand Film Societies. Each member is entitled to ONE FREE GUEST ADMISSION to a single screening.
**To get to the Colquhoun Theatre: The Colquhoun is located on the first floor of the current Dunedin Public Hospital, above the chapel and squash courts. Stairs and lift access are from the main Hospital entrance on Great King Street.
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