The only thing that I can think of that's close to Justice

This is an accreting series of responses to The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

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3 November

This is an accreting series of responses to The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

You haven’t experienced anything like #TheKillingOfASacredDeer before.

In cinemas now: https://t.co/Ef1cDIIjAZ pic.twitter.com/bpRrJM5bFp

— A Sacred Deer (@ASacredDeer) November 10, 2017

Except that it has strong resemblances to - which are better - François Ozon's Dans la maison (In the House) (2012) and Yorgos Lanthimos' own Alpeis (Alps) (2011)... https://t.co/5a1IY933pS

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 10, 2017

Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou love presenting universes where x obtains (or x and y do = given..., find a value for...), and that just is so : in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), they have surpassed the self-imposed and serial strictures of The Lobster (2015), but, in these English-language films, they have barely caught up with the power of Alpeis (Alps) (2011)...

In fact (whenever it's from), this poster for Alpeis (2011) reminds of @LobsterFilm posters - and @SacredDeerMovie feels like it inverts it. pic.twitter.com/WspYgYff71

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2017

Does Lanthimos, in the choice of Barry Keoghan, desire to evoke Mario Minniti - thought a model for Caravaggio ? :https://t.co/piDxfgXB9u pic.twitter.com/cuueV3YoOB

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 6, 2017

Specifically, the disturbing way in which Kafka ends Die Verwandlung (Metamorphosis) - as if, an equation solved, normality can just resume.

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2017

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)