Since the film debuted at Venice, I've been trying to avoid reviews of Alps, the new film by Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos. I've seen headlines and brief quotes that are generally positive; those, a couple trailers and the basic synopsis are all I'm willing to see before going into the film. (The synopsis is easy:…
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Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returns this year with Alps. He has promised this film will be darker, stranger and funnier than Dogtooth, his polarizing portrait of a very messed-up family that became an unexpected Best Foreign Film Oscar contender. We've seen a few images from Alps, which is about three people who aid the grieving…
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If you were to ask me what I think about Dogtooth, the last film from Yorgos Lanthimos and one of the strangest family portraits ever made, my response would probably vary based on any number of factors that are subject to fluctuation. It is a complex movie that gets a complex response, and I have…
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Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we've got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney's The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer…
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Dogtooth has been a surprising film over the past year, first shocking audiences at Cannes with a depiction of a family whose dysfunction is more whacked-out than most would think possible, and then blindsiding awards prognosticators when it nabbed a Best Foreighn Language Film Oscar nomination. Now director Yorgos Lanthimos is already in post-production on…
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