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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

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Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

21 by zircona1
losthighway wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:54 pm Chiming in a million years later because I finally saw Kinds of Kindness. My guess would be that it won't change anyone's opinion on the director. If you like his detached and absurd madness he's back to firing on all cylinders in that department. After sprinkling in a taste of popular cinema with Poor Things this is sheer brutality. The three 45 minute to an hour entries give you shorter chunks of weirdness and I cringed and laughed equally at various audacious events.

I give it a B+.
I thought it played like a bunch of b-sides from a talented artist. I wanted it to be funnier, I laughed maybe 2-3 times throughout the whole thing.
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Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

22 by rsmurphy
losthighway wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:54 pm Chiming in a million years later because I finally saw Kinds of Kindness. My guess would be that it won't change anyone's opinion on the director. If you like his detached and absurd madness he's back to firing on all cylinders in that department. After sprinkling in a taste of popular cinema with Poor Things this is sheer brutality. The three 45 minute to an hour entries give you shorter chunks of weirdness and I cringed and laughed equally at various audacious events.

I give it a B+.
Solid A

I laughed a lot. Super weird. Third act could've used a bit of something, but overall a fun time.
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Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

23 by eephus
Ace K wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:35 am
AdamN wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:33 pm I too did not enjoy Poor Things. I even overheard a coworker gushing about it, saying it was like existential and like feminist. Sigh.
This is a thing that is kind of driving me bonkers, I do not think that Poor Things is particularly feminist except in the most superficial ways. Certainly the villain (introduced quite late!) is a misogynist and of explicitly misogynistic schemes, and there is a heroic character who is explicitly a feminist socialist sex worker, but the plot arc involves a literally childlike woman engaging in a series of sexual escapades before resolving into a marriage with a man who began the whole film as a arranged and controlling guardian figure. Maybe that would be enough in the 70s but I feel like if you're going to say something is a feminist movie in 2023 you need to have something more to say than that.
I too hated Poor Things, and this is a better explanation of why than I could come up with.

Like watching a shell game being performed by a guy who thinks he invented it.

I did like The Favourite pretty well, though it looks worse in retrospect after seeing Poor Things.
Yeah, that's just pretty thin soup!
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Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

25 by losthighway
I just had a notion that makes me curious. I wonder if individuals rate Yorgos similarly to how they rate Dali. They seem to have similar points of interest and criticisms.

Pros:
Unique sensibility and aesthetic
Playful surrealism that defies popular morality
Explores the oddities of the psyche

Cons:
Shallow sense of "weird for weird's sake"
Lack of emotional risk in the esthetic preference for detachment

Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

26 by brephophagist
I don't know if there's a word / term for it, but the relative historical recency of those two people makes them kind of hard to rate relatively.
I don't think you're totally off, and it's an interesting question regardless. To me Dali seems a bit more playful. Possibly because we know more about him and have seen more of his work (see above). My impression (which may be incorrect) is that Dali was more novel for his time and place than Lanthimos is for this one.

Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

28 by Hairy Caul
OrthodoxEaster wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:52 am Dogtooth was great. Absurd, hilarious, cruel, surreal. Pretty much hated The Lobster, though. I have not investigated any of his subsequent Hollywood ventures, although MrsEaster has enjoyed them. Not crap, I guess.
Dogtooth is the only one I have seen, and it is not crap at all; I benefited greatly from trusting the friend who recommended it when they advised me to not look up anything about the film before watching it.
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Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

29 by zorg
Vibracobra wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:06 pm Dali was way ahead methinks.
First 60 seconds of Un Chien Andalou (1929) trumps any provocation this dope ever brought to the screen. Also Dali paints like a motherfucker. I see zero correlation. Lanthimos dabbles in shitty giallo-lite, but at least Argento knew he was a genre filmmaker.
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