The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

2017 / 121min / DCP

The year before enjoying enormous popular success with The Favourite, Lanthimos rolled out perhaps his most difficult and disquieting film to date, a Greek tragedy transplanted to the American suburbs starring Colin Farrell as Steven Murphy, a cardiothoracic surgeon who opens his home in an unguarded moment to a fatherless 16-year-old (Barry Keoghan)… and, as it happens, to a terrible retribution that threatens Murphy’s wife (Nicole Kidman), teenaged daughter, and adolescent son. “A typically arch dramatic conundrum, laced with Lanthimos’s trademark off-kilter artifice and deadpan humour… An increasingly sickening hunger game driven by an inflexible moral imperative.” —The Observer

Distributor: A24

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