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Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Credits
Producers: Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer:
Principal Cast
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic
Category
Feature
Successful heart surgeon Steven (Colin Farrell) is engaged in a bizarre relationship with sixteen-year-old Martin (Barry Keoghan) in Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Dogtooth, 2009; The Lobster, 2015) outstanding new film that pushes the director’s signature style to extremes of inky-black humour and horror. Steven introduces Martin to his wife, Anna (Nicole Kidman), and two children. The boy ingratiates his way into their lives, and is the catalyst for a series of increasingly strange events. Similar to his earlier work, Lanthimos presents a universe that obeys its own internal logic; characters once again deliver dialogue in a deliberately flattened and artificial manner. The narrative – about which the less known the better – hinges on possibly occult forces, and a fug of choking dread hangs over proceedings like a toxic miasma, suffocating in its escalating intensity, bolstered by a terrifying, abrasive score. Notes by David O’Mahony Awards: Best screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Barry Keoghan), IFTAs, 2018
121 minutes, Ireland, UK, 2017, Colour
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