The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become essential within the art cinema, his films are characterized by exploring obsessions such as alienation and disorientation produced by a gap between language and reality, the robotic repetition of social conventions , dystopia, and the use of catharsis as an escape route. There is no better way to …
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
by Octavio Carbajal González “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” , a remarkably gleaming and grotesque film, brought to us by the peculiar and extraordinary Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, is directly based on the Greek tragedy “Iphigenia in Aulis” by Euripides.We are introduced to Steven Murphy, who is a respected cardiologist and surgeon. His wife …
Janko Nilovic – Soul Impressions (1975)
Damnation at the Soul Impression The Soul Impression was the perfect place for Roy and Hoche Szakolczay to set up as the base of operations in Southern California. The kind of club that attracted members of the Hollywood Hill’s wealthy and trendy jet-set who were always looking for creative, interesting, and wasteful activities to blow …