Group sex. Cannibalism. Cults.
Doppelgängers. Messiah figures. Dogs.
And not as much kindness as the title would have you believe.Yórgos Lánthimos returns to his sick roots with his very own spin on The Twilight Zone.And it’s a blast.
After the box office acclaim of and , Yórgos Lánthimos reunites with his long-time writing partner Efthimis Filippou ( ) for a strange anthology triptych that is darker and far more surreal than his recent output. tells three distinct stories using the same acting troupe in different roles, and it’ll prove divisive for fans of and last year’s . This triple helping of Lanthimos’ return to his Greek Weird Wave roots feels like it’s for the OG fans who miss that queasy malaise felt during the indelibly bleak and troubling .
Best of all though is that what could feasibly have been a fun but disposable victory lap following the award-winning is actually nothing of the sort. It’s intoxicatingly strange, sexy, hilarious, enigmatic. And bleak in all the right ways.
The first segment, “THE DEATH OF R.M.F”, follows a submissive office worker Robert (Jessie Plemons) whose dominating corporate oligarch of a boss Raymond (Willem Dafoe) dictates everything he does.
Everything.What he wears, drinks, eats. Who he meets and marries.
When (and if) he has sex with his wife. And you thought your boss was a micromanaging nightmare..
. It’s a routine that has become comfortable for Robert, but all goes to pot when he cannot accept one of Ra.
