Thirteen years ago, Yorgos Lanthimos made a micro-budget film called Kinetta. “Starting in Greece,” he says, “you couldn’t really say, ‘I’m going to become a film-maker.’ A 15-year-old boy in Greece in the 80s and 90s? Since his extraordinary second feature, Dogtooth (2009), Lanthimos has been notorious for a wild imagination and a sometimes aggressive form of absurdism. When he first read The Favourite, Lanthimos says in impeccable English, he knew nothing about the times it depicted. She’s a bit of a nomad.”How do Lanthimos and Labed feel about living in the UK on the brink of Brexit?

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2018 09:56 UTC