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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) by Yorgos Lanthimos - cranefly - 09-27-2018
Yorgos Lanthimos continues his stubbornly idiosyncratic streak.
I saw his Dogtooth years ago, which is very low budget and largely forgettable except for a couple startling scenes -- enough to put him on the map.
I saw his The Lobster more recently, and was sorely annoyed by it.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer should have annoyed me too. I suppose it does to some extent. It certainly has many of the faults of his early work: characters who are more placeholders than real people, holding conversations that don't mesh, talking about subjects (many of them sexual) that one does not normally talk about. It's not a great movie by any means, but I found it serviceable, offbeat, even intriguing in some respects.
Colin Farrell is a heart surgeon, Nicole Kidman is an ophthalmologist, and my goodness, I hadn't realized ophthalmology keeps you so fit! Ahhh, Nicole.
They're married, with two children. Colin befriends a fatherless boy in the early goings, and things quickly turn strange.
More a morality tale than drama, illogical in so many ways, and yet it mostly held my interest, and I only felt a bit cheated.
Maybe I'm developing a taste for Yorgos. Or maybe he's improving in ways I can appreciate. His upcoming The Favourite, an Elizabethan sex comedy, looks genuinely promising.