Director: Yorgos Lanthimos “Lobsters are lonely animals. They stay among the rocks during the day to avoid predators, and venture out at night in search of food. Lobsters rarely interact with each other. When introduced into a community, lobsters obtain a certain social hierarchy. This social system plays an important role when the mating season …
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 …
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Contemporary Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is inclined to create worlds of his own, worlds in which the viewer feels like a complete stranger that gradually interacts with the environment, until a complete and fascinating immersion occurs. In his magnum opus Dogtooth (2009), Lanthimos invited us into a hermetic universe filled with its …
10. Mommy (2014 / directed by Xavier Dolan)In a fictitious Canada, a new law allows parents to lock their problematic children inside a special center. But Diane “Die” Despres (Anne Dorval), a widowed mother, decides to educate her hyperactive and violent teenage son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) herself. Steve has insanely violent episodes and suffers …
