The killing of a sacred deer

gmisk

I can't see a thread on this one.... I loved the lobster...but not sure what to make of this one having just seen it...

Outlaw Pete

Loved Lobster. Hated this.

johnny_ultimate

A weaker film than The Lobster & Dogtooth, but still a worthy effort from Lanthimos.

Stylistically, it follows the formula set out by its predecessors - chilly, unnerving and almost mathematically tidy framing & editing. As ever, Lanthimos excels in making the audience squirm through sustained dark humour and hyper-understated characters. The MVP here, though, is Barry Keoghan, who plays a creep for the ages. It's not a typically villainous performance, in that much of his psychopathic tendencies emerge in subdued tones or a startling matter-of-factness. But immensely creepy he is, and it goes a long way in selling the odd revenge story at the film's core.

After a strong, careful opening hour in which the stakes are slowly established, I did feel the film spent too long treading water - once you've gotten a good sense of what's happening (well, within the sometime purposely ambiguous rules of the film) there's a lot of messing about without really meaningfully expanding the plight being experienced by the characters. There's good stuff in there, but there's half an hour where it feels like the same could've been easily covered in a third of that, even allowing for the film's unhurried, discomforting pace. A... dizzyingly brutal and miserable finale makes up for it, though

take everything

Was thinking of seeing this.
Looks good.
What did posters think.

pumpkin4life

It's ok.

It's heavily influenced by The Shining (themes, the soundtrack, the wide angle lens way its shot), trying to go for this psychological horror mindfùckery stuck in your head two weeks later kind of thing, if you're into that kind of movie. But its far too long, and the movie lacks depth. It's a very fake/artificial feeling kind of film.

Hey, this character said something weird and random? Isn't this a creepy movie and aren't you freaked out by Conkers Colin talking about pubes?

:rolleyes:

Boring for the pumpkin.

What saves it from being a boring train wreck is the creep of the century performance from Barry Keoghan. He steals every scene in it; and way outacts Kidman and Farrell in every way. The lad is like a teenage Norman Bates or some crap like that.

In summary, crap film saved by one outstanding acting performance.

The music's good as well I suppose.

JP Liz V1

Keoghan getting great reviews for this, talk of Cannes too

Is it very long?

Outlaw Pete

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is it very long?

10 and half hours.

Oh no wait, that's just what it felt like :P

It's just off two hours long.

gmisk

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Keoghan getting great reviews for this, talk of Cannes too

Is it very long?

He is terrific in it...Nicole Kidman is very good as well.....it does feel long...

homerun_homer

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Keoghan getting great reviews for this, talk of Cannes too

Is it very long?

Talk of Cannes? It was shown at Cannes this year.

JP Liz V1

homerun_homer wrote: »

Talk of Cannes? It was shown at Cannes this year.

Yes it premiered at Cannes this year and won an award

homerun_homer

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Yes it premiered at Cannes this year and won an award

Right, the phrasing of your post made it seem as if "there is talk of it going to Cannes" which I thought was bizarre. It doesn't read like you mean it.

JP Liz V1

homerun_homer wrote: »

Right, the phrasing of your post made it seem as if "there is talk of it going to Cannes" which I thought was bizarre. It doesn't read like you mean it.

Sorry I meant it was the talk of Cannes ;)

Frankie5Angels

Wanted to walk out of this, but felt there was something in it, especially when

Martin describes what will happen to the kids

.

Was I right to stay?

No, I could not have been more wrong. This is among the worst films I've subjected myself to, ever.

Smegging hell

Barry Keoghan is excellent, but I didn't find it as good as the past works of Lanthimos which I've seen. It definitely wanders in the middle and felt longer than it was.

LuckyLloyd

I really liked it. It looks and sounds great and Keoghan's performance is incredible, as noted above. I probably enjoyed the unwinding of Farrell's dilemma more than most by the sounds of things. I think the impossibility of his situation and growing inevitability of what he has to do to solve it is highly engaging.

SATSUMA

Probably the worst film i have ever seen in my life!!! My two friends agreed. Boring. Didnt get it at all.

What a load of sh1te.

Raoul Duke

Anyone else feel that Colin Farrell was doing a Brendan Gleeson impersonation for a lot of the film?

Looper007

See that this film has had a love it or hate response. I don't think it's anywhere near as good as Dogtooth, but prefer it to Alps and The Lobster (which I still think it's a film of two halves, everything up to when he leaves the hotel is fantastic after that it goes off the rails). Definitely feel the influence of Stanley Kubrick and Michael Haneke all over this.

Barry Keoghan is definitely the best thing in it, has the feel of Malcolm Mcdowell in Clockwork Orange and Arno Frisch in Funny Games. If anything good comes from this film, it make him a more well known name. This and Dunkirk definitely show the guy is a talent to watch. Colin Farrell again showing even with his A List star looks, he's still at his best playing against type. Nicole Kidman is great too. Also great seen Raffey Cassidy, the best thing in the underrated Tomorrowland. The Soundtrack is one of the more unnerving things I've heard this year. Could see this getting in my top 10, need to give it another rewatch.

Frank O. Pinion

Incredible film, pure perfection. As good as The Lobster. My new #1 for 2017, (dethroned mother!). Yorgos Lanthimos might be my favourite active film director. Lynch is my favourite, but he hasn't made a film in nearly 12 years.

It still makes me smile when people say everything is "superheroes, sequels, and remakes" nowadays, yet a film as unique as this is still met with confusion, or outright hate. I love the worlds Lanthimos creates. I felt uneasy, nauseous and happy while watching this. Too long? I want a 3 hour Lanthimos film. Too bizarre and confusing? He's just getting started.

Arcade_Tryer

Started off promising. Finished in embarrassing fashion. A shame.

MilesMorales1

I don't know what I thought really. I'd be lying if I said I really enjoyed it, but its succeeded in its goals of making me feel weird and a great deal of tension about the whole thing. Didn't help the cinema I was sitting in was so cold I felt like I was in a freezer.

by8auj6csd3ioq

Dialogue was stilted. BK was good but no hint of where he got his power

I'm only a few minutes in to this and already feel very uneasy.

NinetyTwoTeam

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

Incredible film, pure perfection. As good as The Lobster. My new #1 for 2017, (dethroned mother!). Yorgos Lanthimos might be my favourite active film director. Lynch is my favourite, but he hasn't made a film in nearly 12 years.

It still makes me smile when people say everything is "superheroes, sequels, and remakes" nowadays, yet a film as unique as this is still met with confusion, or outright hate. I love the worlds Lanthimos creates. I felt uneasy, nauseous and happy while watching this. Too long? I want a 3 hour Lanthimos film. Too bizarre and confusing? He's just getting started.

Exactly! This was the best thing I've seen in a long time, Lanthimos and Phillipou's work is just unlike anything I've ever seen. It's so brilliantly deadpan and absurd. I had no idea of their work so I watched this and The Lobster on back to back nights and I'm just astounded.

But it's definitely a film that a lot of people just won't get. I almost feel sad for them, but there is plenty of the usual dreck out there for them and a lot less of truly clever, true pieces of art like this, so I don't really.

Off to watch Dogtooth now.

NinetyTwoTeam

Andi Shy Lava wrote: »

Dialogue was stilted. BK was good but no hint of where he got his power

You just don't get what the film is trying to achieve.
The dialogue is like that on purpose, it's part off the whole unsettling vibe. And there isn't any need to describe something that wouldn't be realistic anyway because the point is, the film creates its own world where absurd or strange things are just accepted as normal, which is actually very much like the world we live in, just that the absurd things we accept are slightly different. The Lobster does the same thing.

I genuinely feel bad for people who can't enjoy films unless every detail is explained and spoon fed, but it's a product of the way films have been made, the James Bond villain always explaining his evil plan, etc.

Frank O. Pinion

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

Incredible film, pure perfection. As good as The Lobster. My new #1 for 2017, (dethroned mother!). Yorgos Lanthimos might be my favourite active film director. Lynch is my favourite, but he hasn't made a film in nearly 12 years.

It still makes me smile when people say everything is "superheroes, sequels, and remakes" nowadays, yet a film as unique as this is still met with confusion, or outright hate. I love the worlds Lanthimos creates. I felt uneasy, nauseous and happy while watching this. Too long? I want a 3 hour Lanthimos film. Too bizarre and confusing? He's just getting started.

I'm very much on board with your opinions on the superhero stuff, and have always been a big Lynch fan, but I found this just very uninteresting and had no desire to continue after half an hour. With Lynch I find while whats going on can be perplexing but the characters are intriguing (apart from the rabbits which was a step too far). With this it just felt like a lot of forced weirdness and unnatural acting. Very much a modern art piece of work that wants to be something for the sake of it then actually being something. What am I missing here?

NATLOR

Raoul Duke wrote: »

Anyone else feel that Colin Farrell was doing a Brendan Gleeson impersonation for a lot of the film?

I thought he sounded like Dougal (from Ted) so couldn't take him seriously at all! Enjoyed the movie nonetheless

hannadiDBS

Started off really promising. Unnerving/chilling atmosphere and awkward interactions between characters which added to the effect... Made everything feel super weird in a good way, but it lagged in the middle and by the end of the movie I had already forgotten what it was about