The Killing of a Sacred Deer

(Ireland/UK/US, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos)

Greek absurdist auteur Yorgos Lanthimos is doing it again and again. After he shot two brilliant black comedies in his native country, Lanthimos tried his luck internationally with The Lobster, a wonderfully dystopian fairytale. Lanthimos’ films are impossible to pigeonhole, but his latest comes as close to genre cinema as it can get. In this tense thriller, Colin Farrell plays a troubled heart surgeon feeling strangely responsible for the teenage son of a deceased patient of his. As the story slowly unfolds, it becomes painfully clear what the boy’s intentions are…