Who bothers and is capable of directing like that nowadays?

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2019)

If someone conceives cinema as another race track, Lanthimos with his 'The Favorite', proved himself a better director than Haneke, because of his versatility, courage and homages to the great ones: Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lindon), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The bitter tears of Petra von Kant), Lars von Trier (Dogma).
(Don't rush it. Just wait for it and let it grow in you.The movie ticks for a few hours/days, until it explodes from within the viewer).