The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2007)
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Cinematography: Thimios Bakatakis
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The Lobster (2015) / Cinematography by Thimios Bakatakis
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
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Time of Day (2018), dir. Thimios Bakatakis
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The Lodge
Though both were developed at the same time, so it’s not likely one is aping the other, Severin Fiala and Veronika Frantz’s THE LODGE (2019, Max, Hulu) has more than a little in common with Ari Aster’s HERIDITARY (2019). Both feature eerie miniature rooms that reflect the action, in this case a dollhouse modeled on the film’s main setting, a remote country house. Both feature cults, though the one in THE LODGE is part of the leading lady’s back story. Both have strong casts delivering good performances. Both got surprisingly strong reviews from the “we only love horror if it’s bloodless” camp. And both have scripts I found problematic if not downright loathsome. In THE LODGE, a man (Richard Armitage) informs his estranged wife (Alicia Silverstone) that he wants a divorce so he can marry his mistress (Riley Keogh). So, Silverstone kills herself, though I suspect she saw the script and told her management team, “Get me the hell out of here!” Armitage is left with two kids (Jaeden Martell and Lia McHugh) who understandably resent his future wife, so he decides the logical thing to do is force them to spend the Christmas holidays together in his lodge while he works. This isn’t the best idea under any circumstances. The fact that Keogh is the sole survivor of a religious cult whose members, led by her father (played by Keogh’s father Danny Keogh) committed mass suicide, and she’s heavily medicated, just makes it harder to swallow. Then, of course, strange things start happening. Keogh and the children wake up one morning to discover the power off, all their phones dead and all their stuff, including Keogh’s medication and most of the food, missing. Is the cult back? Is the house haunted? Is Keogh doing this all without realizing it? Working with cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis, Fiala and Frantz shoot it all quite well, with off-kilter camera angles and eerie shots of the snowy countryside and the house’s interior. But when all is revealed, the stupid catches up with them, and you may be left wondering “What were they thinking?” SPOILER: There’s a dog, and it dies. Maybe he read the script, too.
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Evangelia Randou and Ariane Labed in Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)
Cast: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alexandros Niagros, Kostas Berikopoulos. Screenplay: Athina Rachel Tsangari. Cinematography: Thimios Bakatakis. Set decoration: Dafni Kalogianni. Film editing: Sandrine Cheyrol, Matthew Johnson.
I don't know much about the so-called "Greek New Wave" (which has also been called the "Weird Wave," from the uncanny quality of some of its films) beyond the work of Yorgos Lanthimos, who has broken out into international prominence. And now I've seen Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg, which isn't really much like Lanthimos's work, except that he has an on-screen role in it and was one of its producers. It's the story of Marina (Ariane Labed), a young woman who works in a steel mill and tends to her father, Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis), who is terminally ill. When she's not doing that, she's with her friend Bella (Evangelia Randou), talking about her alienation from other human beings and about sex -- the latter involving some experimentation with various forms of kissing. Oh, and occasionally doing some routines that look like John Cleese's old "silly walks" bit for Monty Python. Marina looks on human behavior with the kind of distanced curiosity with which she watches the TV nature documentaries by David Attenborough. (A mispronunciation of his name gives the film its otherwise inexplicable title.) Eventually she has sex with an engineer played by Lanthimos, and encourages Bella to have sex with the dying Spyros. He dies, Marina and Bella scatter his ashes, and the film closes by watching trucks hauling dirt from a mine. Yet somehow Attenberg is strangely watchable, enough to keep me pondering its oblique view of the characters and their world.
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Happy Day 18 of 31 Days of Halloween on Hulu!
The lodge (2019)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5
😱😱😱/5
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“It doesnt say Anything About
presents in the Bible”
With the mother passing, Richard meets Grace. A woman who as a child was in a religious cult that caused her immense trauma. Mia and Aidan are Richards kids from the previous marriage and can't see how their father can be involved with another woman after the passing of his last wife suddenly. Richard decides to connect Grace with his kids, he invites Grace to the cabin with his children.
The amount of hidden meanings in this film is astronomical and (no spoilers) my mouth dropped open at the ending. It's hard nowadays to see original movies but this was one that actually didn't seem like a remake of another film. Very original idea and I loved the meanings behind everything. In my opinion this is a psychological horror rather than a drama/horror. Which is why I liked this so much more. This is one of my higher rated movies for the 31 days of halloween! Definitely one to spend this month on.
Director: Veronica Franz, Severin Fiala
Cinematography: Thimios Bakatakis
Tw: dead bodies, hurt animals, blood, children in peril, simulated suicide
#thelodge #logcabins #aliciasilverstone #horror #movie #reviewer #31daysofhalloween
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The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematography by Thimios Bakatakis
Starring Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Raffey Cassidy and Alicia Silverstone
"The most important thing in life is to have good friends, not lots of friends."
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The Lobster (2015)
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The Capsule, Athina Rachel Tsangari (2012)
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