Focus Features
Yorgos Lanthimos is at his most accessible when directing someone else’s script. Such is the case with his Venice International Film Festival entry, the Jang Joon-hwan-written, Will Tracy-adapted “Bugonia.” Fortunately, there is just enough peculiarity, violence and blood that it’s unmistakable as being of his oeuvre.
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Sundance Institute
MOVIE REVIEW
Krazy House (2024)
Many European artists – Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, to name a couple – have very skewed ideas about what defines Americana, deduced exclusively from our pop culture exports. The Dutch filmmaking duo Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil is yet another example. “Krazy House,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, can best be described as “Funny Games” reimagined as a sitcom.
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