Alps Directed by Giorgios Lanthimos Written by Giorgios Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou Greece, 2012 Was there ever really a way that director Giorgos Lanthimos could top his controversial and divisive Dogtooth? His latest film, Alps, suggests perhaps not, but the Greek master of the unconventional and the bizarre has once again crafted up another formal experiment …
Alps Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos Written by Efthymis Filippou and Giorgos Lanthimos 2011, Greece The wild card in last year’s best foreign-language category at the Oscars was Giorgos Lanthimos’ sophomore effort Dogtooth, a provocative dark comedy about a husband and wife who raise their children completely isolated and void of any knowledge of the outside …
Last year, the entire “Sound On Sight” team placed Giorgos Lanthimos’ family- based drama Dogtooth on their top five films of 2009 (Listen to our review on podcast #165 or read my review here). The Dogtooth director who has kept busy preparing for his next film, has also been preocupied producing Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg. …
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos Currently touring the festival circuit is a bizarre Greek film called Dogtooth, the third feature by writer, director, and producer Giorgos Lanthimos. Its plot could be likened to that of American Gothic, focusing on a family living in a large, secluded house. The parents have never allowed their two …