Dogtooth (2009) ***1/2

Dogtooth (2009) is Yorgos Lanthimos's most sexually explicit film and perhaps his most disturbing one, focusing on a father's bizarre isolationist and overprotective nature toward his family. Taboos are broken, word meanings are improperly ascribed, weird dancing and random bursts of violence occur—all before an ambiguous finale. Compelling, funny, icky, and scary.