Finally I’ve gotten around to seeing the works of Yorgos
Lanthimos! I’ve heard about the Greek director for what feels like a decade,
but never got my hands on his movies. Today we’re taking in a double feature of
his two most recent works from A24: The
Lobster and The Killing of the Sacred
Deer. They manage to feel strongly like they have to be A24 movies, while
also not being quite comparable to any other A24 movies. My biggest takeaway
was a need to see a third Lanthimos movie just to get a grasp on his style.
The Lobster (2015)
In the midst of a dystopia, people who don’t love anyone are
shipped in droves to hotel-like centers for re-education. They are given 45
days to fall in love or else they will become animals. For more than half the
movie we don’t know what the outside world is like, and wonder if the entire
planet is a series of dystopic hotels like this, split up by farms of former
humans.
