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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
15 | | Cast
Aggeliki Papoulia
Aris Servetalis
Johnny Vekris
Ariane Labed. | | Directors
Yorgos Lanthimos. | | Screenwriters
Yorgos Lanthimos
Efthymis Filippou . | | Running Time
93 minutes |
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Greeking out
Plot
A group of four people, including disillusioned nurse Aggeliki Papoulia, offer their services as surrogates for grieving relatives. Review
Godfather of the Greek Weird Wave Yorgos Lanthimos follows up the Oscar-nominated Dogtooth with an absurdist tale of emotional misfits glazed with bleak, black laughs. Aggeliki Papoulia is a jaded A&E nurse who, along with a paramedic, gymnast and coach, targets families of the recently deceased and offers to double as the dead like ghosts for hire. Set at a frigid distance by Lanthimos’ strict, static compositions, a parable of emotional numbness emerges, cuddly as an iceberg, with cryptic hidden depths. It’s mordantly funny, too — the game of death-bed tennis is absolutely priceless.
Verdict
Writer-director Lanthimos delivers another heady dose of weirdness. Loopier than a frog sandwich but rather wonderful.
Reviewed by Simon Crook
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