If you thought director Yorgos Lanthimos’ last film The Lobster was odd and more than a little confronting, wait for this, his latest truly absurdist feature.
Surgeon Colin Farrell is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice, the result of a mistake on the operating table. Looking for justice (or revenge), young Barry Keoghan inveigles his way into the doctor’s privileged family, where Nicole Kidman is more than a little suspicious.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is magnificently and beguilingly uncomfortable, delivery of dialogue flat and emotionless (a Lanthimos trademark), pointed jet-black humour off-kilter, domestic horror and violence taken to an extreme. It’s a harrowing experience (the entire auditorium emptied in silence) yet strangely and unaccountably rewarding.
Rating: 70%
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth)
Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth), Efthimis Filippou (The Lobster, Dogtooth)
Main cast: Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Fantastic Beasts), Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Lion), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, ’71)
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