Recently watched Bugonia and really hated it, so but it\u2019s time to do a ranking of a supremely marmite director. Marmite closer to the bad side in that I hate more of the director\u2019s films than love them, but yeah, there\u2019s levels of hate and love to everything. Nice.\u00a0\u00a0(\u02f6\u1d54 \u1d55 \u1d54\u02f6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
6 Kinds of Kindness (\u2256_\u2256 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why Yorgos, why? \u1559( \u15d2\u15e3\u15d5 )\u1557 You\u2019d released the genius Poor Things at the start of the year (I\u2019m talkin\u2019 UK, I know other territories got to have this film earlier), and then you go and release this putrid shite near the end of the year. A nice little soggy brown pre-Christmas present, perhaps? Whatever you were thinking, this shiz honked. Majorly honked. (\u00ac_\u00ac”) It\u2019s told in a kind of triptych, three stories centred around control, but nothing landed for me. I like Emma Stone (see: Poor Things), I like Jesse Plemons (see: Breaking Bad, Black Mirror), I like Willem Defoe (see: lots of stuff). But a solid cast does not a great film make. The level of weirdness didn\u2019t work, Yorgos seems to have something against dogens and I can\u2019t get on board with his depictions of violence. And this is coming from someoneone who\u2019s watched a fair amount of violent joints. KoK just comes as across as hollow, meandering and entirely soulless. It\u2019s a no from me. Here\u2019s an angry meme cat I found on the website emojicombos. It doesn’t look so good because WordPress has double spaced the lines and won’t let me change them, but hey, you can still see it if you look closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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5 Bugonia ( ,,\u2a4c’\ufe3f’\u2a4c,,)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this joint, similar problems to the above (Kinds of Kindness, not the angry cat meme. Got no problems with that dude, he\u2019s just letting off some steam). Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos seem like a firm pairing at this point, but I\u2019m just not digging it. Jesse Plemons is definitely channelling some peak energy with his conspiracy theory dude, but it\u2019s not enough, dude. I know Yorgos is getting a kind of auteur reputation with all his weird and \u2018kooky\u2019 filmography, but this kind of weird just doesn\u2019t gel. For me, anyway. The splashes of violence are often OTT in a Tarantino gross-out comedy kind of way, and\u2026that ain\u2019t my style, man. Here\u2019s disappointed face from that same website. Again, kind of ruined by WordPress, but hey…look closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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4 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (\u00ac`\u2038\u00b4\u00ac)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weird, man. And again, not in a compelling way. Barry Keoghan is definitely talented when it comes to channelling those weird vibes, but the plot just feels flat to me. Admittedly, I don\u2019t do much research into video essays or similar things when it comes to Yorgos joints, so maybe I\u2019m missing something. Colin Farrell isn\u2019t bad either, I just can\u2019t get too far with the thin, fable-like narrative. (\u00ac`\u2038\u00b4\u00ac)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 The Lobster ( \u2022\u0300\u2919\u2022\u0301 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concept is intriguing with this one, don\u2019t get me wrong. It\u2019s got a soft dystopian sci-fi vibe going on, and I appreciate that. It\u2019s just the execution which I\u2019m not particularly fond of. Also, Yorgos, what\u2019s your beef with dogs? Come on, man. Farrell also puts in another intriguing performance here, but it\u2019s still not enough to elevate this joint to \u2018wow\u2019 level. More of a \u2018meh\u2019, I\u2019m afraid. (\u00ac_\u00ac”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 The Favourite \u0d26\u0d4d\u0d26\u0d3f(\u02f5 \u2022\u0300 \u1d17 – \u02f5 ) \u2727<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, onto the good shiz. The very good shiz. Olivia Coleman knocks it out of the park with this one as per usual, injecting pathos and sympathy into a troubled and traumatised monarch. Oh, and that long focus shot on her face as she watches Sarah dancing with another partner. Absolute gold, and perhaps the bit that secured the Oscar. This is probably Yorgos\u2019 most \u2018normal\u2019 joint, but it\u2019s still full of fabulous character and pomp. Everyone shines here, and this one\u2019s very much deserving of all its awards attention. (\u3065\uff61\u25d5\u203f\u203f\u25d5\uff61)\u3065<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 Poor Things \u25dd(\u1d54\u15dc\u1d54)\u25dc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now for the big one. Yorgos\u2019 magnum opus. So far, anyway. Bizarre and very, very odd, but in a great way. Possibly the top level of odd I can go to and appreciate without disengaging. Emma Stone\u2019s on fine form in the main role, and the steampunk aesthetic was well deserving of awards attention. Willem Defoe\u2019s also awesome as always. Add to that one of the happiest\/oddest final scenes I\u2019ve seen in cinema for a long while, and you\u2019ve got yourself an absolute cracker. Bravo. (\u25b0\u02d8\u25e1\u02d8\u25b0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently watched Bugonia and really hated it, so but it\u2019s time to do a ranking of a supremely marmite director. Marmite closer to the bad side in that I hate more of the director\u2019s films than love them, but yeah, there\u2019s levels of hate and love to everything. Nice.\u00a0\u00a0(\u02f6\u1d54 \u1d55 \u1d54\u02f6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}