A Conversation with Efthimis Filippou
In English | about 45’
Efthimis Filippou, the acclaimed screenwriter behind some of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive films, including Dogtooth, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos, Chevalier by Athina Rachel Tsangari and the recent Rosebush Pruning by Karim Aïnouz, discusses his career, collaborations and approach to writing for the screen, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
► Followed by a screening of :
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« Realistic cinema is something I really like, but for me it’s way too hard. I think you have to be extremely talented to make realistic cinema. And still I don’t know if it exists in the first place. I don’t even think documentaries are very realistic. So since I don’t think I have the capability to depict something in a realistic way, and it is the scariest and hardest thing to me, I pick the easy route, which is to try to describe my story with exaggeration. So I make something very unealistic, in order to show something very realistic. I’ll speak in an absurd way about something logical. This helps not let me lose my grip. I always remind myself that what I’m saying exists. So I never lose sense of what I’m doing. » (Efthimis Filippou about the writing process of Dogtooth)
► This film will also be screened on 27 November at 20:45, but without the conversation with Efthimis Filippou.
As harrowing as it is humorous, Lanthimos' award-winning journey to a family's heart of darkness is unflinchingly detailed, thought-provoking fare.
Empire Magazine