The production design, costumes, sets and enviroments all look amazing and the great cinematography which embraces the shiny-ness of the palace and the colors of the costumes, helps the film feel really like....A REAL PLACE.
It just sucks that the script is very mediocre.
It tries to reach for something with every character but everytime it almost gets there, it drops the ball and does nothing with them. Nicholas hoult is incredible wasted aswell as emma stone. Not in the performances as they are all pretty good but again, the writing gives them nothing to work with.
Lanthimos is a skilled director but what irritates me about his style and direction, especially with his script is that allot of the times his films are just weird for the sake of weird. It sometimes can create interesting worlds, quirky-ness and weirdness is a thing you can build entire realities from inside of film but everytime lanthimos does that, it falls entirely flat because he forgets those realities also need to have people with strong personalities in them.
To be fair this is one of his more tame films.
(Also watch my newest film My review of i love bottle caps on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/aKMnNv )
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