Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsioni, Anna Kalaitzidou. 94 minutes.

Catch the lean, stylized Greek film with teeth that was nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. Being open to interpretation is the genius of this highly disturbing, elusive parable set in what appears to be a luxurious Attica villa. But instead of being the site of social decadence, the home with high walls, a swimming pool and a healthy green lawn is the site of plenty of antisocial behavior. Mom and Dad have kept the kids under wraps within its walls, lying about just about everything involving the outside world –from airplanes to cats (which they say are public enemy #1) to the meaning of words themselves. In that retro-furnished world that includes a locked-up dial telephone, the family tension grows among their child-like teen/20something daughters and son. Violence and a hot, angry thirst for rebellion color this study in control.