A truly torturous experience for almost everyone involved, the film is an aggressively juvenile and tedious dissection of the notion of free will
ClassificationJust a few months after fooling moviegoers into thinking that he was the woke second coming of Terry Gilliam with, Greece’s favourite bad widdle boy Yorgos Lanthimos is back. But while the speed at which the director’sarrives in theatres is impressive, the actual contents of the new “triptych fable” only reveal all manner of cruel truths.
Mostly, this involves Lanthimos putting his thumb on the thematic scale, putting a number of thinly drawn characters through Job-like tests in order to discover the arbitrariness of life. Butjust as much plays as if the filmmaker, alongside his regular co-writer Efthimis Filippou cannot have a meal, drink, bathroom break or sexual encounter with his wife, played by Hong Chau, above, without prior approval from his boss.
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