Going tomorrow night. I finally saw Dogtooth recently, it's probably the film of his I've liked the most. Indifferent on The Lobster/Sacred Deer, I guess I don't really love this guy's movies but I'm keeping an open mind for this one.
on one hand it's an absurd comedy of manners about the grotesqueness of the ruling class, on the other it's a (you should absolutely NOT spoil this) devastating love storyToggle Spoiler
it's lanthimos' most approachable mainstream film while still retaining the aesthetic idiosyncrasies he's honed over his past two features in particular. the reason it's so good is that it's the first time he's has followed Actual People and not caricatures/metaphors/ciphers. colman, weisz, & stone all do tremendous work
landspeedrecord wrote:it's lanthimos' most approachable mainstream film while still retaining the aesthetic idiosyncrasies he's honed over his past two features in particular. the reason it's so good is that it's the first time he's has followed Actual People and not caricatures/metaphors/ciphers. colman, weisz, & stone all do tremendous work
It's the first one he hasn't co-written, which is probably significant
landspeedrecord wrote:it's lanthimos' most approachable mainstream film while still retaining the aesthetic idiosyncrasies he's honed over his past two features in particular. the reason it's so good is that it's the first time he's has followed Actual People and not caricatures/metaphors/ciphers. colman, weisz, & stone all do tremendous work
It's the first one he hasn't co-written, which is probably significant
yeah, that makes a lot of sense
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landspeedrecord wrote:the lobster had too much ironic distance for my taste
felt this way about Lobster and Deer, but I appreciate what he's doing enough that I still like him despite, and these are at least the KIND of movies i want more of
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I'll take an interesting failure over a boring mediocre film any day, but I found the lobster and a sacred deer to be fairly flawed, ultimately unsatisfying films