At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a man and a woman.
Direction
Lanthimos finding his voice through deliberate awkwardness.
Acting
Servetalis and Randou commit to the void completely.
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on digital video with non-professional actors for roughly €20,000, this was Lanthimos's second feature—before Dogtooth made him internationally infamous.
The film's 'fictional documentary' structure directly influenced The Lobster's hotel sequences; Lanthimos has called it his most personal work, which explains everything.
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