Corporate doublespeak. Disenfranchisement fuelled by expanding privilege gaps. Social media dug rabbit holes which promote conspiracy theories over critical thinking, leading to the breakdown of civil dialogue and the erosion of empathy.
Living in today’s increasingly chaotic world is not always fun, and when so many days feel like the bleak punchline to a joke Yórgos Lánthimos would tell, it’s hard not to think of the futility of human enterprise. Or surrender to the dispiriting prognosis that we, as parasites on an Earth we’re destroying, may deserve to reap the madness we’ve sowed.
How fitting then that the godfather of Greek Weird Wave’s latest offering is perhaps his timeliest yet, and definitely what 2025 ordered.
After putting his muse through a baroness fracas (The Favourite), a fantastical fable (Poor Things) and an underrated Twilight Zone triptych (Kinds Of Kindness), Lánthimos makes Emma Stone an
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