Yorgos Lanthimos

I've always wanted to make movies

that make people

think and feel

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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".

distinctive movie language,

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.

depiction of a world,

where you would rather

turn into

than live all alone

an animal

a world, where

you would rather

In 2015, Lanthimos released his very first movie in English. According to the plot, being lonely is illegal, and all people

you can go into

If finding a couple

an exile

and neither becoming

with fellow loners.

without a lover are sent to a special hotel, under one condition:

they must find a couple

in 45 days.

If they don't, the singles

will be turned into animals of their choice.

The main character wishes to become a lobster

since they have blue blood and

have a lifespan of 100 years.

The loners society has

and also

they must dig

absurd, at first sight, the plot line,

turns out

to be a satire

of

society

is impossible,

an animal

is desirable

to the woods

or friendship, are forbidden.

Relationships, be it romance

its own set of rules.

They can only dance alone,

their own graves.

the modern

an exile to the woods

turns out

to be a satire

without a lover are sent to a special hotel, under one condition: they must find a couple in 45 days. If they don't, the singles will be turned into animals of their choice.

absurd, at first sight, the

plot line