When I saw Killing of a Sacred Deer, I realized this was one of those problematic directors, a troublemaker, a loudmouth, a guy who doesn't care if he offends people, and I may not like everything he has done or will do, but I like it when there are directors around like him. It's the counterirritant to mainstream discourse that just jives with what we can tolerate or weakly imagine. Lars vonTrier and Nicholas Winding Refn are two others that come to mind.
I really liked this film. It was weird, provocative, funny, yet formally rigorous and well-realized. I think the next one, 'Kinds of Kindness' is bombing, so Yorgos is already up to his old tricks again...
'Kinds of Kindness' will have you hating him once more, I reckon.
When I saw Killing of a Sacred Deer, I realized this was one of those problematic directors, a troublemaker, a loudmouth, a guy who doesn't care if he offends people, and I may not like everything he has done or will do, but I like it when there are directors around like him. It's the counterirritant to mainstream discourse that just jives with what we can tolerate or weakly imagine. Lars vonTrier and Nicholas Winding Refn are two others that come to mind.
I really liked this film. It was weird, provocative, funny, yet formally rigorous and well-realized. I think the next one, 'Kinds of Kindness' is bombing, so Yorgos is already up to his old tricks again...