Yorgos Lanthimos
7 titles · european arthouse
Absurd rules obeyed with a straight face. Lanthimos invents a closed system — a family that never leaves the house, a hotel that turns the single into animals, a court run on cruelty — and films the people inside it behaving as though it were normal. The comedy and the cruelty are the same thing, delivered flat.
Signature
- Self-contained worlds run on one arbitrary, absurd rule.
- Deadpan, affectless performance holding comedy and horror together.
- Bodies and desire treated clinically (Dogtooth, The Lobster, Poor Things).
- Period dress turned strange by wide lenses and cold light (The Favourite).
Alps
Dogtooth
Kinetta
The Favourite
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Lobster
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