Primetime ‘Sacred Deer Sacrifice’ on Rai 5 Starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman: Here’s the Plot of the Movie
The anxieties of a very wealthy family take the form of enchantment and suffering: this is the film “The Sacrifice of the Sacred Deer”, signed by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos – and starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffi. Cassidy, Sunny Suljik – Broadcast Tuesday, September 5 at 9:15 pm on Rai 5.
Dr. Murphy is a respected and successful heart surgeon: the seeming calm of his family, wife, and two teenage children is shattered by the arrival of Martin, a popular boy whose father had died years earlier in an operation performed by Murphy himself. . The doctor’s children fall ill: this is the result of a terrible spell cast by Martin, who holds the surgeon responsible for the death of his father and thus decides to restore justice.
Lanthimos brings the unsettling dynamics of the Greek tragedy to the film: in this case, the inspiration comes from the cycle of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, who was destined to be sacrificed to appease the wrath of the gods. In 2017, The Sacrifice of the Sacred Deer won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes.