Friday’s openings redux: time for a bit of weird

In keeping with its ongoing practice of opening offbeat films on occasion, AMC River Park Square is scheduled to open a movie on Friday that promises to be a little south of weird. The movie:

"The Killing of a Sacred Deer": Colin Farrell plays a surgeon who is forced to react when a teenage boy he befriended begins to act strange.

The film was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a script he co-wrote. Lanthimos, who was born in Greece, is noted for exploring — hmmmmm — unusual themes in his films. The only one I've seen is his 2015 offering "The Lobster," in which he cast Farrell as a man whose desire is to become what the film's title implies. Really.

As Lanthimos declared in an interview with the UK Independent, "“Me, personally, what I want is to allow people to be engaged actively in watching the film,” he says. “I like to construct films in a way that makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, [but so you’ll still] be able to enjoy them, be intrigued [and] start to think about the meaning of things – and hopefully by the end of it, you’ll have some strong desire to keep thinking about them.”

Note his use of the term "a bit uncomfortable." You've been warned.