Even as AI threatens to drain the last drops of creative individuality from screen entertainment’s future, there is still proof that at least some audiences crave the kinds of idiosyncratic ideas you can only get from an actual human brain. When Yorgos Lanthimos first attracted international attention (to himself, and to the “Greek Weird Wave” of likeminded emerging filmmakers) with his recently-rereleased second feature Dogtooth in 2009, he hardly seemed likely to become some kind of global…er, brand.

Yet the quease and black humor of that film commenced a following that soon led to English-language cinema (starting with The Lobster in 2015), then improbably to starry, popular movies that get nominated for (The Favourite) or actually win (Poor Things) a lot of Oscars. What’s more, he had

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