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Dogtooth
Why this pick
Its adults raised inside a violently controlled, fabricated world echo Bubby’s stunted social awakening, delivered with similarly deadpan, unsettling absurdity.
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MOVIE1993 1h 54m AUS
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Bubby is a 35-year-old man who has never set foot outside his mother's dingy apartment in the back of a printing press in an industrial area of Adelaide. In addition to beating and sexually abusing him, she confines him to the apartment, telling him that the air outside is poisonous and telling him he will die if he tries to leave. Bubby eventually escapes, joins up with a rock band, and embarks on a confused but nihilistic journey of self-discovery and shocking mayhem.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nicholas Hope
Bubby
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Fondled Salvo
Nikki Price
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Grant Piro
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