Having gained accolades - and several Oscar nominations - for his absurdist films that firmly implanted him among Greece's so-called "weird wave" directors, he's not ruling out a new genre: musicals.
This week, he told journalists he relished the experience of "returning to an earlier form of cinema" with the silent, black-and-white movie projected from a 35mm print, and music played by a live orchestra. is the first Lanthimos film shot in Greece in over a decade and was commissioned by the Greek National Opera and cultural non-profit NEON.
"A lot of the films that came out after that are quite different. So, there wasn't a specific movement. I think it was just conditions maybe that, were similar, for the films that were being made, but not the essence of the films themselves."The son of a Greek basketball player, Lanthimos briefly dabbled in the sport as a teenager before realising that his real talent lay elsewhere.
"But for some years now... I think I'd just go wherever it makes sense, for each story to film. So, if a story like this one, makes sense to film it in Greece, I'd happily come and film it here," he said.
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