THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Film Screening (ENG subs)
Tuesday 9. December at 18:00 - 20:01
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Yorgos Lanthimos | 2017 | UK / Ireland | 121 minutes
Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles.
The Deer and the Bees
If you buy a ticket to this screening you will enjoy half price entry to any BUGONIA session this week
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER follows Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) - a respected surgeon with a controlled and comfortable life. His routine unravels when he befriends a teenage boy. Their meetings seem harmless until Steven’s children fall mysteriously ill and Martin reveals that he holds Steven responsible for his father’s death during surgery.
The story becomes a moral nightmare. Martin demands that Steven choose one family member to die to restore balance. If he refuses, all of them will suffer. It's the famous psychological thought experiment The Trolley Problem writ large, but made all the more personal as it's Steven's own children who stand to suffer.
Lanthimos shoots the film with wide angles, slow tracks, and stillness. The hospital halls, suburban homes, and empty parking lots feel cold and stripped of humanity. Dialogue is flat and detached, creating a mood where even ordinary sentences feel threatening.
The performances deepen the discomfort. Colin Farrell plays Steven as a man who tries to reason his way out of the impossible. Nicole Kidman brings a brittle control as his wife. Barry Keoghan’s Martin remains calm, polite, and terrifying. The film becomes a modern tragedy about guilt, sacrifice, and the limits of rationality.
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER is one of Lanthimos’s most focused and disturbing films. It confronts ideas of justice and punishment, and is essential viewing for anyone who is also interested in catching his latest film BUGONIAa
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi.
How to find FOMO: Enter via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia