Labeled a sci-fi anthology film, the forthcoming release’s log line describes it as a “triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.” It was penned by Lanthimos and his frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, and given their previous track record—Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer—as well as the delightfully strange early images that emerged from the set when filming took place in New Orleans in 2022, it promises to be another head-spinningly surreal tale from the audacious Greek auteur.

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Lanthimos was characteristically enigmatic when speaking about it at a BFI event back in January, saying: “We’ve just shot this film… a contemporary film. It’s three different stories, and we’re finishing the edit right now, and I still can’t tell you exactly what it is about. But I also wouldn’t want to tell you what I thought the stories are about because it just makes it so small. I try not to even think about it during the process, because I’m afraid that it will make my choices more narrow.”

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We’re certainly intrigued. Look out for it in cinemas from June 21 and, if all goes well, at the