The Avalon Theatre Presents Dogtooth, Nominated for a 2011 Best Foreign Language Feature Oscar®!
When:
Thursday February 17, 2011
Where:
Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington,
DC 20015
Cover Charge:
$11.00
(Kynodontas)
Not Rated, but Explicit
94 min • in Greek w/ English subtitles DIGITAL projection • Official Site
~ FROM GREECE ~
NOMINATED FOR A 2011 BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE OSCAR®!
“You cannot look away.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“A creepy, funny, elegantly shot allegory of something very weird in human nature.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times
A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen -- an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a "telephone," an armchair is "the sea") -- until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son's libidinal urges, starts offering forbidden VHS tapes in return for sexual favors.
February 11th - 17th, 2011 Shows at 1:00 PM and 6:15 PM
