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Coming to Sundance: New Crop of Engaged Indie Films

A scene from Mitchell Lichtenstein’s “Teeth,” at Sundance in 2007.

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: November 30, 2006

But sex could well be the story of this year’s Sundance.

In “Teeth,” directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein — the son of the artist Roy Lichtenstein and an actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Wedding Banquet” — a high school student who is the object of male violence discovers that she has a quite literal case of vagina dentata. Several men learn this the hard way, in what might be called a feminist horror film.