Greek Weird Wave
Filmatique presents Greek Weird Wave, a series of films that refract the zeitgeist of contemporary Greece's economic, political, and spiritual turmoil. Often, these explorations adopt a style of mundane realism, stories of everyday life set within scenarios of macabre, bizarre, even violent milieux. Three films by Weird Wave pioneer Yorgos Lanthimos launch the series.
-
Alps
WATCH TRAILER
Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece • 2011 • A chilling portrait of a society that has gone off the rails.
A gymnast desperately wants to perform her routine to a pop song, but her coach says she's not ready. The coach himself moonlights as a grief surrogate—he is Mont Blanc, the head of A...
-
Dogtooth
WATCH TRAILER
Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece • 2005 • An astonishing portrait of one of cinema's strangest families.
A handsome estate in the Greek countryside. A wealthy businessman lives here with his wife and three grown children, all in their twenties. They are ostensibly an ordinary family, e...
-
Kinetta
WATCH TRAILER
Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece • 2005 • Kinetta is a cryptic portrait of isolation, violence, and boredom.
A seaside town. Sun-drenched and thronged with tourists in the summer, it is now winter, and the landscape is barren, dreary. Three locals live vaguely intersecting lives—a maid...
