Greek film director known for a distinctive, often surreal and satirical body of work. Reviews and publicity cite films such as Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Favourite, and Poor Things; frequent collaborator with screenwriter Efthymis Filippou. Work is noted for dark humor, formal rigor, and recurring themes of sexuality and social control.

Recurring collaborator: Efthymis Filippou. Themes often highlighted in reviews: satire, eroticism/sexuality, repression, social critique, striking visual style (wide-angle lenses, choreography/dance). Poor Things won the Golden Lion at Venice (noted in reviews).

DeBaser reviews collectively praise Lanthimos's singular visual style, dark satire, and recurring themes of sexuality, repression, and social critique. Reviewers note both his mainstream successes and his return to more unsettling, surreal work. Overall reception is strongly favorable toward his craft and ambition.

For:Cinephiles interested in auteur cinema, readers who like dark satire and surreal filmmaking

 Only second-rate religions rely on mysteries, just like second-rate governments rely on secret police. Truth, beauty, and goodness are not mysterious; they are the most common, obvious, and essential facts of life, like sunlight, air, bread. Only people with their brains muddled by an expensive education think that truth, beauty, and goodness are rare private properties. Nature is more generous. The universe denies us nothing essential; it gives us everything. God is the universe plus mind. Those who say God or the universe or nature are mysterious are like those who define these things as jealous or angry. They only betray the solitary and confused state of their own minds.

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 If Lanthimos were Mr. Wolf, he would take his coffee with a lot of Kubrick and a lot of Bunuel.

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