Ramzi De Coster

Confessions Efthimis Filippou is the co-writer behind most of Yorgos Lanthimos’s films—from Dogtooth (2009) to Kinds of Kindness (2024)—as well as an accomplished author and playwright in Greece. Here, he speaks about his writing process in his own words. Photography by Yorgos Lanthimos. Efthimis Filippou was born in 1977, a period after the military dictatorship, and on the eve of Greece’s membership to what is today known as the European Union.

The Taiwanese auteur’s seminal work uses photographs and one-sided conversations to reveal unexpected insights into his characters’ subconscious. Camera, coma, comma; these are all words which put things on pause: light, consciousness, a sentence. In English, they even fit into each other like Russian nesting dolls, half-rhyming, half-not.

The Production Designer and Set Decorator of Edward Berger’s Conclave sit down with Amy O’Brien to discuss how they captured the secret and sinister beauty of the 21st century Vatican. When Suzie Davies and Cynthia Sleiter first linked up in Rome in the summer of 2022, it was “as close to what you can call love at first sight,” recalls Sleiter. “The minute we first looked at the Conclave project together, our vision matched up.