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Cinema

Hideously watchable: Killing of a Sacred Deer reviewed

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

You know where you aren’t with director Yorgos Lanthimos. The Greek allegorist creates parallel worlds which superficially resemble our own. In Dogtooth an overweening patriarch incarcerates his three adult children in a state of infantilised innocence. The Lobster punishes those unable to find a mate by transfiguring them into animals.

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