IphigeniaAulis2.0011_Lanthimos

IphigeniaAulis2.0011_Lanthimos

Apollod. Bibl. E.3.21-22.
Hom. Il. 9.145
Eurip. Iph. Aul. passim
Ov. Met. 12.1-38, 13.182-95

Lanthimos, Yorgos (1973 - ), director. 2017. "The Killing of a Sacred Deer." Motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, and Colin Farrell.

A highly successful surgeon seems to have it all tied together in life until a mysterious newcomer appears with a gut-wrenching proposition. Acknowledgement of the connection to the Iphigenia at Aulis comes in the information provided Kim's high school principal that she wrote an essay about Iphigenia. This connects indirectly Steve's character and challenge to Agamemnon's. This is an apparently important film by a highly acclaimed young Greek filmmaker.

Reviewed by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker 30 October 2017, click here.

Lanthimos, Iphigenia Aulis

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