"Somehow it's fitting that two of last year's most dangerous films will be hitting DVD shelves the same week, both being favorites of the IFC.com staff. 'Dogtooth,' Lanthimos' much-debated Un Certain Regard winner from Cannes, concerns the lives of three culturally isolated children -- two daughters and a son, who range from mid-teens to early 20s -- fenced in by their parents' country home, who receive a reeducation when their lone connection to the outside world, a female security guard for their parents' business, introduces them to the joys of sex and Sylvester Stallone films. Meanwhile, 'Irreversible' provocateur Noé's latest is a wildly ambitious 155-minute extravaganza set inside the mind of a drug dealer told from the first-person perspective. Nathaniel Brown and 'Boardwalk Empire' star Paz de la Huerta play siblings torn apart after their parents died in a car accident who reunite in Tokyo just before Brown's drug dealer is shot and left to observe his sister from above. (Alison Willmore's review of "Dogtooth" and Aaron Hillis' interview with Noé can be found here.)"
