Life is cruel, all is vanity, the house always wins and the cosmic joke is on us. Everything in popular culture conspires to hide these truths from us because they’re a lousy way to make money. Occasionally, however, creative artists turn up to remind us of the facts, and they’re usually not American.
Kafka. Nabokov. Buñuel.
Maybe Yorgos Lanthimos doesn’t belong in their company yet, but he’s giving it his best shot..
