Efthimis Filippou : Screenwriter of the Absurd and Uncanny

✦ 𝐄𝐟𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐮 : Screenwriter of the Absurd and Uncanny ✦
📍 Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins
Few contemporary writers have transformed the grammar of everyday life as radically as Greek screenwriter Efthimis Filippou. Across his collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos and his work with other filmmakers both in Greece and further afield, Filippou has created worlds that are at once recognisable and deeply disquieting, in which language becomes ritual, relationships become systems and the most ordinary gestures acquire an unsettling charge.
From Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer to works with other directors such as Chevalier, Pity and, most recently, Rosebush Pruning, Filippou’s writing moves between absurdity and menace with deadpan humour, exposing our often extremely brittle facades and the even more fragile rules that govern our senses of intimacy, desire, family and belonging.
This retrospective offers a journey through a distinctive cinematic imagination, one that always manages to locate the uncanny within the familiar, and the profoundly human within the absurd. An on-stage conversation with Filippou will offer a rare opportunity to encounter the voice and thinking behind these singular worlds, while he’ll also introduce a screening of Nikos Papatakis’ 1986 drama The Photograph, a film reminiscent in many ways of Filippou’s own screenwriting obsessions.
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫:
🎞 Tue 06 | 10 - 20h30 : 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝘀 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostEN
🎞 Sat 10 | 10 - 20h45 : 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostFR
🎞 Sun 18 | 10 - 19h30 : 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostFR
🎞 Wed 21 | 10 - 20h30 : 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Karim Aïnouz | vostFR
🎞 Fri 23 | 10 - 20h30 : 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗿 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostFR
🎞 Wed 28 | 10 - 19h00 : 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗳𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘂 followed by the screening of 𝗗𝗼𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostEN
🎞 Thu 29 | 10 - 18h30 : 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵 Nikos Papatakis | vostEN
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
🎞 Mon 02 | 11 - 20h30 : 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostFR
🎞 Thu 29 | 11 - 20:15 : 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 Athina Rachel Tsangari | vostEN
🎞 Mon 23 | 11 - 18:30 : 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝘆 Babis Makridis | vostEN
🎞 Fri 27 | 11 - 20h45 : 𝗗𝗼𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 Yorgos Lanthimos | vostEN
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📍 Location : Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins
9, Place du Théâtre - L-2613 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
🎟️ Tickets : Full : 3,70€ / reduced : 2,40€
10-ticket booklet* : 25€ et 17€ (reduced)
Online and at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the screenings)
*The 10-ticket booklets are available exclusively at the box office of our cinema.
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