Colin Farrell's and Yorgos Lathminos' follow up to The Lobster has been winning rave reviews after it premiered in Cannes.
The film which also stars Dublin's Barry Keoghan has been touted as a potential prize winner by The Irish Times' Donald Clarke. The psychological drama sees Farrell in the lead role playing a cardiologist named Steven who on the face of it leads a normal existence with wife (Nicole Kidman) and two children (Raffey Cassidy & Sunny Suljic). However it soon transpires that Steven has quite an unusual relationship with sixteen year old Martin (Barry Keoghan), whose obsession with Steven could have terrifying consequences for Steven's family.
The main cast have all been winning plaudits for their individual performances with Keoghan in particular receiving lofty praise.
Here's a roundup of what the critics are saying.
"Keoghan achieves his international breakthrough with a performance that cunningly conceals vengeful ambitions behind a disingenuously obliging exterior. He holds his own admirably against such experienced pros as Kidman and Farrell." - Donald Clarke, The Irish Times.
"a performance of chilling effectiveness from emerging Irish talent Barry Keoghan" - The Hollywood Reporter
"Farrell, sporting a heavy beard, brings enormous gravitas to the central role" - The Hollywood Reporter
"his growing acceptance of his family’s helplessness – and his own uselessness, by extension – is electrifyingly played by Farrell, whose mossy beard and stony speech feel like saucepan lids clapped over the simmering anguish underneath." - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
"Dublin-born Keoghan, who’s soon to be seen in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, is petrifyingly opaque" - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
"Barry Keoghan, wonderfully disturbing" - Collider
