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Old 06-07-2023, 04:13 PM   #14998
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Originally Posted by Destor View Post
He does make joyless movies for sure

His most joyful film is about people pretending to be retarded. “The Idiots”… it’s trying too hard to be transgressive so it just comes off as pathetic rather than deplorable much like GG Allin. Lots of nudity of course.
I remember watching it as a teen when it was on Film 4 as part of their controversial foreign films season and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing not because it was incredible, but because even as a teenager stoned out of my tree it just seemed like a child’s effort to shock a bigger kid.

Yorgos Lanthimos is a bit like a cross between David Lynch and LVT with vastly superior talent, a sense of humour and actual working knowledge of cinema and psychology. I don’t particularly like him either but at least he knows what he’s doing.
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