A parent’s desire to trap their offspring in perpetual childhood is not a foreign concept to Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 psychological drama “Dogtooth” chronicled the dysfunctional routine of a wealthy businessman, his meek wife, and their severely infantilized adult children.
The reason for the children’s folie a troix is as simple as it is bleak: the trio has been kept within the tight confinements of their family house all their lives, the world outside their fence shaped entirely by their mother and father.
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