
Kala azar

A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.
[D'AFF] Almost as if it were an apocalyptic movie, but about the disappearance of the human being. The protagonist couple, in reality, already seem transformed into animals, or at least they behave like them, with hardly any dialogue: they sleep, eat and fuck. Yorgos Lanthimos' shadow is elongated, here expressed through frames that break up the scene. There is humor, but only at the end. In the rest of the film there is too much awareness of wanting to be weird for being weird.