GEN F(ilm): Un Chien Andalou, The Lobster & The Favourite

Published: June 22, 2020, 2:21 p.m.

In this weeks episode we are looking at two films directed by Yorgos Lanthimos: The Lobster (2015) and the Favourite (2018). In addition, we added a surrealist film from 1929 entitled Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Together we unpack surrealism and how it is displayed in all three of these films. Not only are these films projects of surrealist ideas, but also include a well known cast of actors! Olivia Coleman and Rachel Weisz appear in both of Lanthimos's films; while other famous actors such as Collin Ferrel, Emma Stone, John C. Reilly, & Nicholas Hoult make up the dynamic casts of Lanthimos’s crazy worlds.