Knowra Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek film director, screenwriter, and producer known for unsettling stories, controlled visual style, and deadpan performances. His films include Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Favourite.
Dogtooth : A 2009 Greek drama about parents who isolate their adult children and control their knowledge of the outside world. Its domestic world and invented language established Lanthimos’s international reputation.
Deadpan : A comic or dramatic delivery that suppresses visible emotion and emphasizes understatement. His actors often deliver bizarre events in an unnervingly flat register.
Efthymis Filippou : A Greek screenwriter and playwright who co-wrote several films with Yorgos Lanthimos. Their scripts shaped the clipped dialogue and constructed social rules of his Greek and early English-language films.
Greek Weird Wave : A loose movement in Greek cinema associated with austere style, social estrangement, and absurdist narratives. Lanthimos’s early films helped bring this internationally discussed tendency into view.
Michael Haneke : An Austrian filmmaker known for formally controlled films examining violence, media, and bourgeois life. Both use restraint and discomfort, but Lanthimos often pushes social behavior toward absurdist invention.
The Lobster : A 2015 dystopian comedy in which single people must find partners or be transformed into animals. It brought Lanthimos’s absurd social rules into his first English-language feature.
Wide-angle lens : A camera lens with a short focal length that captures a wider field of view than a normal lens. Wide and distorted compositions help make ordinary spaces feel strange.
Emma Stone : An American actor who has starred in several films directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Her performances in The Favourite, Poor Things, and later collaborations became central to his recent work.
Athens : The capital and largest city of Greece, and the setting where Lanthimos began his filmmaking career. His early films were made within Athens’s independent film scene.
Luis Buñuel : A Spanish-Mexican filmmaker whose surrealist films satirized social conventions, religion, and desire. Buñuel offers a surrealist precedent for Lanthimos’s attacks on respectable social rules.
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