Apples

Apples (Mila) (2020)

Apples (Mila) first published by Sight & Sound, April 2021 Review: Christos Nikou’s Apples opens with a montage of pictures showing a bourgeois apartment’s empty interiors. Even if these shots – a ruffled pillow, a mug on a messy table, a bed, a close-up of a lacy dress hanging from a cupboard door – are…

Dogtooth

Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)

Dogtooth first published by Sight & Sound, May 2010 Review: “The issue here is to decide together how we want your dog to behave. Do we want an animal or do we want a friend?” This is what the dog trainer (Alexander Voulgaris) tells an unnamed Father (Christos Stergioglou) about the care and patience required to guide…