I've always wanted to make movies
that make people
think and feel
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differently.
Yorgos Lanthimos was born in 1973 in Athens.
As a kid, he thought he was going to be a basketball player, and as a junior, he studied economics for a year, but he decided,
that it wasn't for him
Asked if he has thought about a creative career, Lanthimos says: : “In Greece, especially at that time, if you had said, “I'm going to be a director,” it would have been pretty absurd.
There were so few movies
being made. There was
no industry,
no financing”.
The idea of
directing was so unimaginable that he didn’t
even consider it when enrolling in film school.
Just hoping to do commercials for a living.
As a kid, he thought he was going to be
a basketball player, and as a junior,
he studied economics for a year, but
he decided,
Starting out in advertising,
ideas
about human
behaviour.
he thought: "it won’t be a movie, but it will be close‎"
Dedicating several years of his life to filming commercials ,
Lanthimos
started to work
in experimental
theaters.
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Theater helped him find contact with actors and discover methods of working with them,
although in cinema these methods
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are quite different.
Starting out in
advertising, he thought:
"It won’t be a movie, but it
will be close"
"it won' be a movie, but it will be close"
in experimental theatres.
Dedicating several years of his life to filming commercials and music videos, Lanthimos started to work
On theater stages, he was able to embody his most extreme
and far-from real
Theater helped him find contact with actors and discover methods of working with them, although in the cinema these methods are quite different
and formats.
All of this has allowed
genres
with different
unique visual style
him to develop his own
and learn how to work
his main hobby
his main hobby was
at the same time,
was
and
still is
photography
including freedom
from your own
boundaries"
"the most important thing in a job
is freedom
From his very first films he began to form his own
Lanthimos chose the absurd and the psychological thriller as his genre,
distinctive movie language, unlike anything that
had been seen in Greek cinema
before
because they
allow him to investigate
the deepest
and darkest aspects of human nature and society. The starting point for the director’s international
recognition
in 2009
was
the scandalous
"Dogtooth".
"Dogtooth".
distinctive movie language,
From his very first films
he began to form his own
From his very first films
he began to form his own
distinctive movie language,
unlike anything that
had been seen in greek cinema before
unlike anything that had been
seen in greek cinema before
the story of three children who
have never left the grounds
of their home
The idea for the movie was born during a conversation between the director and friend and co-writer Filippou:
he thought,
where the desire to
go to any
lengths to preserve
one's family and the desire to keep one's life under one's control might lead.
Totalitarian parents raise their children in isolation and shield them from
the world behind a fence. They play violent games, call things by other names than their own and believe
that airplanes in the sky
– are little toys.
fall out.
«dogtooth»
brings up an issue of
overprotecting
parents
unexpected
manner
The only way children could
their permanent teeth
escape the imaginary world
and get over the fence is after
and overcontrolling
in a completely
The idea for the movie was born during a conversation between the director and friend and co-writer Filippou: he thought,
where the desire to go to any lengths to preserve one's family and the desire to keep one's life under one's control might lead.