Yorgos Lanthimos – FilmFest Salon

Film: “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”

This Yorgos Lanthimos film, which he wrote with Ethymis Filippo, was released in 2017, but I only got around to seeing it some weeks ago. The title, “The Killing of a SacredDeer”, is never explained in the film, and only further research revealed that it was a modern retelling of the Iphigenia myth. Although I […]

Film: “The Favourite”

By filmfestsalonDecember 4, 2018Film Review BlogDeborah Davis, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Tony McNamara, Yorgos Lanthimos

Directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favorite is a sly, mostly on-target story of royal back-stabbing under the reign of Queen Anne that has been getting a lot of critical praise. As satire, it sets a high standard for itself, and, more often than not, it reaches it. But, whatever its limitations as satire – […]