The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) ****
If treated as belonging to the same playing field as David Lynch, Yorgos Lanthimos could be considered a genius of sorts. Like Lynch, he doesn't play by the same narrative rules as most filmmakers, and I say more power to him. He has a style that's his own which could be polarizing to the lowest common denominator. To those more adventurous souls, he has much to offer.
Lanthimos' trademark of stilted, awkward dialogue carries through to his new film, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017), a psychological thriller about a surgeon whose family is threatened by a boy whose father died during an operation by the surgeon. Sacred Deer is incredibly (and blackly) funny at times. The more horrific elements only take hold on occasion, mostly through the jarring atonal soundtrack and sound design. There's a lot that's left unexplained, as with Lanthimos' previous film, The Lobster (2015) (review) (one of my top films of last year), but in the case of Deer it doesn’t hurt the film—in fact quite the opposite.
Lanthimos' trademark of stilted, awkward dialogue carries through to his new film, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017), a psychological thriller about a surgeon whose family is threatened by a boy whose father died during an operation by the surgeon. Sacred Deer is incredibly (and blackly) funny at times. The more horrific elements only take hold on occasion, mostly through the jarring atonal soundtrack and sound design. There's a lot that's left unexplained, as with Lanthimos' previous film, The Lobster (2015) (review) (one of my top films of last year), but in the case of Deer it doesn’t hurt the film—in fact quite the opposite.
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