Yorgos Lanthimos follows up Oscar winner Poor Things with a ponderous arthouse anthology film
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Mamoudou Athie, Yorgos Stefanakos, Joe Alwyn, Hunter Schafer.Parables of the extreme. That may well be the most fitting description for the films of Yorgos Lanthimos. His movies pass through absurdism into a stylistically unique form of modern fable, parables of human weakness and pomposity.
The old Lanthimos themes around interpersonal power, of compliance and supplication, are still there, as is his excellence in assembling and working with an extraordinary cast. Moreover, they all key into his distinctive formalism, that curt delivery that deprives a line of emotion but keeps it clearly under the surface., each installment dragging on beyond the point of patience.
The ponderous tone sits in poor tension with the nature of an anthology, which is to make your point and get off the stage for the next act. Only “The Death of R.M.F.” remembers that a good setup deserves a punchline, and its bitter insight into our dependence on our corporate overlords feels complete if overstretched. “R.M.F. Is Flying” merely dumps the audience out after a few instances of titter-inducing sex and uninspiring gore, even if it’s fun to see Stone and Plemons working together. “R.
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