The American magazine Variety, compares the film with a Big Brother house made by Lars von Trier and it also made things in common with paintings by David Hockney. The official block of Entertainment Weekly describes “Dogtooth” as a “cold, bristling, comment on the dynamics of the family and the strange power of the youth’s curiosity towards sex. This movie would be a first class material for an American remake.”

The Greek cinema has been awarded in Cannes five times: the actress Melina Mercouri for “Never on Sunday,” the director Mihalis Kakoyannis for “Electra” (award for best remake of a theatrical play), Theo Angelopoulos for his script of “Voyage to Cythera,” the Grand Prize of the Jury for “The Gaze of Odysseus” and the Golden Palm for “Eternity and a day.”