A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
Direction
Lanthimos's deadpan absurdism at its most quietly devastating
Acting
Papoulia's blank-slate performance is genuinely haunting
Writing
Bizarre rule system that reveals everything about control
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title refers to the code name for the group, but also evokes impossible emotional peaks no one can actually reach.
Lanthimos and Filippou wrote this during Greece's economic collapse, using dead-end jobs and impossible rules to mirror national helplessness.
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