Age: 52
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Yorgos Lanthimos (Greek: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, born 23 September 1973) is a Greek filmmaker. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Lion, as well as nominations for five Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Lanthimos started his career in experimental theatre before making his directorial film debut with the sex comedy My Best Friend (2001). He rose to prominence by directing the psychological drama film Dogtooth (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lanthimos transitioned to making English-language films with the black comedy The Lobster (2015), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). He collaborated with actress Emma Stone in the period black comedies The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) and the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for The Favourite and Poor Things, in addition to winning the Golden Lion for the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yorgos Lanthimos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Yorgos Lanthimos
Director
for Director in THE VIRTUOUS EXCHANGE (2029)
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Set in a world where people can barter their most intimate emotions, memories, and virtues as currency, a mysterious underground market thrives. The wealthy elite, bored with material possessions, begin trading their empathy, happiness, or love for more practical gains—power, knowledge, and control. A young couple, Nina and Derek, struggling financially, decide to sell some of their more "useless" emotions to afford a better life. Initially, they feel liberated, shedding parts of their personalities they viewed as weaknesses. As they continue trading away their traits, the couple’s personalities begin to shift in bizarre, haunting ways. Nina loses her ability to love, while Derek becomes frighteningly stoic, unable to express joy. Their once harmonious relationship disintegrates as they devolve into a state of apathy and moral detachment. Meanwhile, they become entangled in the schemes of a rich, enigmatic collector, Anton, who hoards others’ emotions and uses them for his manipulative pleasures. Throughout the story, the audience questions the true cost of stripping oneself of humanity in favor of "advancement" and the emptiness that comes with a life devoid of core emotions.
