Opulent, beautiful, outlandish, psychodynamic! ...either love it or hate it. I LOVED it.

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2019)

One can tell from divergent reviews everywhere, one either loves the style of the film and Lanthimos storytelling - or hates it (or has very high and unfulfilled expectations).
Personally, I was blown away by the well composed images, tilted angles, muted colors, weird emotional close ups and melancholic, surreal wide-angle shots. In my point of view, the actors fill their characters brilliantly. The music, the costumes, the production design, the lighting, the typefaces - all is super well executed! Love for details - you can feel it in every frame. WOW.
The film torments the viewer with unreal, dragging passages, metaphors, allegories (which made me think of e.g. the first part of MELANCHOLIA by von Trier, where nothing 'really' happens for 1 hour...), but delights the viewer with funny, grotesque, thrilling, haunting, disturbing moments in between. I believe that this contrasting behavior strengthens the plot, overall storytelling dynamic and the emotional impact onto the viewer.
I, personally, am very glad I've sat through those 2 hours of raw human nature disguised as rich, royal monarchy - the images gave me a long lasting inspiration and the music plays on. Thank you for that masterpiece.