The Favourite – Venice 2018 Review Tom Bond August 31, 2018 Reviews Yorgos Lanthimos and his tragicomic experiments have been a favourite of arthouse cinema for years now, from the bloody Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer to the oddly tender The Lobster. If his...
Lost in Munich – LFF Review Tom Bond October 2, 2015 Reviews Lost in Munich starts odd – a French parrot offends Czechs on the anniversary of the historical 1938 Munich agreement by repeating the insults of the French PM Edouard Daladier – and only gets...
Absurdity And Violence in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth Cameron Ward February 17, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features - "The animal that threatens us is a cat." - Yorgos Lanthimos' darkly subversive 2009 drama Dogtooth offers no easy answers. In this respect, and many others, this freakish tale of parental autocracy...
