One of the key films of the Greek New Wave,
Dogtooth is the darkly satirical portrait of a family in which the parents keep their grown-up son and two daughters shielded from the outside world.
Confined to the family’s house and garden, they live according to a seemingly absurd system of rules and rituals that however is insidiously effective in keeping them in place – at least until there are breaches from outside and within. This all feels very strange not least because even shocking events are delivered in the most deadpan visual style and at a deceptively calm pace unobtrusively controlled by
Yorgos Mavropsaridis’s editing.
After the screening editor
Yorgos Mavropsaridis will be in conversation with editor
Chris Wyatt.
Greece 2009, 97 mins.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
In collaboration with, and organised by EUNIC London and the Goethe-Institut London.
In association with the London Film School. Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Yorgos Mavropsaridis Biography
After graduating from the Theatre Workshops in Athens, Greece, in 1975 and the London Film School in 1978, Yorgos Mavropsaridis started his prolific career as freelance editor in 1980, gaining him numerous awards, including the Greek State Awards for Enchantress and Touch of Spice , as well as from the Hellenic Film Academy for the Oscar nominated Dogtooth and for Enemy Within.
Beginning with Kinetta he has edited the films by Yorgos Lanthimos, which besides Dogtooth, include Alps and the Palme d’Or winning The Lobster. He has also brought his professional experience to the films by other up-and coming directors from Greece such as Michalis Konstantatos and Sofia Exaarchou. He has also worked with the Latvian director Juris Kursietis on his Oscar nominated film Modris and Turkish director Kahn Mujdeci on his film Sivas, which won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice in 2014.
Chris Wyatt Biography
Chris Wyatt has worked with an eclectic mix of acclaimed British film directors from Peter Greenaway to Shane Meadows. Spanning a career of more than forty years, credits include The Pillow Book, This is England and Dreams of a Life. Chris has had a long association with director Yann Demange and edited the critically acclaimed ’71. Chris’ last project was God’s Own Country with writer/director Francis Lee, which premiered in competition at Sundance this year and will have it’s European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
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