Yorgos Lanthimos

You have forty-five days to find a partner, or you’ll be turned into the animal of your choice. It’s the first English-language film from Yórgos Lánthimos (“Poor Things”), Greece’s king of dark surrealism, with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz. Falling in love under those rules is asking for trouble. — In the near future, the City arrests anyone who is divorced, widowed or single and sends them to the Hotel, where they have 45 days to find a partner. Whoever runs out of time is turned into an animal of their own choosing and released into the Woods. One man escapes to the place where the Loners live, only to fall in love there, which the Loners forbid as well. — Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2017 Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2015 Queer Palm - Special Mention | Cannes Film Festival | 2015

Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”) reworks a tragedy by Euripides into the story of a boy who works his way into an American heart surgeon’s family to settle a score, and who will take nothing but a death for a death. Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star opposite an icy Barry Keoghan. — Sixteen-year-old Martin lost his father on the operating table of heart surgeon Steven Murphy. Now Steven meets the boy at a diner and eventually introduces him to his wife, Anna, and their children, Kim and Bob. Martin returns the favour with dinner at his home, where his mother tries to seduce Steven, and Steven starts to keep his distance. Then one morning Bob wakes up and can’t move his legs. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

Three grown-up children who have never been beyond the garden fence are at the heart of the pitch-black, ironic puzzle that made Yórgos Lánthimos’s name. It took him all the way to the Oscars, became the flagship of the Greek Weird Wave, and remains the strangest thing Greek cinema has produced. — Two daughters and a son, all of them somewhere between twenty and thirty, live shut away with their parents and have no contact at all with the outside world. Their lessons come from cassette tapes, and they are told again and again never to leave the house. According to their father’s rules, a child is only ready to go out once a dogtooth falls out. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2011