Formalizing, Institutionalizing, Stigmatizing, Legalizing and Illegalizing Love.

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2016)

Social satire on human relationships in modern Western culture. You could call it social science fiction if you like, but that's not really the point... what we're really talking about here is a comedy about formalizing, institutionalizing, stigmatizing, legalizing and illegalizing love.
I found it to be one of the most brilliant comments on society's expectations and complications of human interdependence put on film in recent memory. If ever (cautious hyperbole). And the entire aesthetic principle of the movie, the minimalism, the repeated forms, the crack down the middle of its structure, the emotional distance from its subjects... keeps you constantly on your heels as a viewer.
Perhaps it's a tad too long, and maybe not the genius of narrative reveal and experiential filmmaking as Dogtooth (Lanthimose's earlier masterpiece), but this is staggeringly good work.