The Killing of a Sacred Deer

References

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

film by Lanthimos [2017]

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

Yorgos Lanthimos
The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
In The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Lanthimos and Filippou drew inspiration from Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis, in a story about a surgeon (played by Farrell) who must sacrifice a member of his family to remove a curse inflicted on them by a mysterious…
Read More
In The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Lanthimos and Filippou drew inspiration from Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis, in a story about a surgeon (played by Farrell) who must sacrifice a member of his family to remove a curse inflicted on them by a mysterious…
Read More

Colin Farrell
Career
Lanthimos, The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
Read More
Lanthimos, The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
Read More

Barry Keoghan
Break into Hollywood: Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
>The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Read More
>The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Read More

Nicole Kidman
Resurgence
…in Yorgos Lanthimos’s psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer; a band manager in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties; and a high-strung assistant to a wealthy man with quadriplegia in The Upside.
Read More
…in Yorgos Lanthimos’s psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer; a band manager in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties; and a high-strung assistant to a wealthy man with quadriplegia in The Upside.
Read More