2024 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

BLEAT
Yorgos Lanthimos
World Premiere
The Artist on the Composer
A GNO and NEON co-production
6, 7, 8 May 2022 | Starts at: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring Emma Stone and Damien Bonnard
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, Bleat –the second work to be commissioned as part of the GNO and NEON programme The Artist on the Composer– is to have its world-first premieres accompanied by live music ensembles on 6, 7 and 8 May 2022 inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC. The Greek National Opera’s participation in the co-production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [
] to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.
The award-winning Greek filmmaker accepted the invitation extended by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis and NEON Director Elina Kountouri to produce, write, and direct the short film Bleat, shot on the Greek island of Tinos in February 2020, and starring Oscar-winning American actor Emma Stone and acclaimed French actor Damien Bonnard.
The Artist on the Composer programme –run by the Greek National Opera and NEON [
]– connects pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers/producers with orchestral music performed live. Through works that spring from the programme’s new commissions, each artist responds to, and enters into dialogue with pieces by classical composers, free from every standard operatic convention, trope and storyline, in the hope of reaching audiences who may never have connected with opera before.
Following on from The Artist on the Composer’s first commission –a 2019 installation by Nikos Navridis– the gifted and internationally renowned Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the programme’s second commission to create a new cinematic work that will always be presented with the live accompaniment of music ensembles. The work’s music script consists of pieces by J. S. Bach / Knut Nystedt and Toshio Hosokawa, performed live inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall by the soloists Angelina Tkatcheva (cimbalom) and Wu Wei (sheng), the “Maria Callas” quartet, and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Visual Arts Programme • New production • World premiere
Music and Visual Arts Cycle • A GNO and NEON co-production
The Artist on the Composer
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Second Commission Yorgos Lanthimos: Bleat
6, 7, 8 May 2022
Start times: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach / Knut Nystedt, Toshio Hosokawa
Cimbalom: Angelina Tkatcheva
Sheng: Wu Wei
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
With the participation of the “Maria Callas” quartet and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
Set designer: Anna Georgiadou
Costume designer: Angelos Mentis
Choreographer: Christos Papadopoulos
Director of photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Film editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Executive producer: Rebecca Skinner
Producer: Eleni Kossyfidou

5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

欧格斯·兰斯莫斯([宠儿])将自编自导新片[小镇人口1280](Pop. 1280，暂译)。影片改编自吉姆·汤普森撰写的同名犯罪小说，该小说于1964年出版，讲述一个小镇腐败警长以他独有的方式操纵小镇人民，以赢得下一次选举。该小说曾于1981年被法国导演贝特朗·塔维涅改编为影片[政变]，菲利普·努瓦雷、伊莎贝尔·于佩尔主演，并提名奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。

Kinetta, a Greek desolate resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. Lanthimos studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio (a policeman, a photographer and a hotel maid) who barely speak and who pass the time by staging re-enactments of murders.
The policeman with a passion for automobiles, tape recorders and Russian women, investigates a series of recent murders in the area. He enlists the help of a photo-store clerk, a loner who is a part-time videographer, and a young hotel maid, who will be performing the role of the female victims. This oddball trio engages in a succession of murder re-enactments, directed by the cop with exhaustive attention to detail but questionable scientific purpose…
We know nothing more of these people. Not even their names. They will disappear in the first flood of summer vacationers...

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.

2017 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.