An Oscar Best Picture victory for The Favourite could not only radically reconfigure Yorgos Lanthimos’s career but also establish him as one of the boldest and most original filmmakers of our time. But filtered through Yorgos Lanthimos’s high-concept madness, satirical impulses and playful irreverence, The Favourite turns into a revisionist masterpiece full of self-reflexive absurdities. Turning 18th century Kensington Palace …
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