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Parents keep their adult children inside a walled garden with a false language; Lanthimos' breakout.

Two women fight for Queen Anne's favour in a fisheye court; Olivia Colman's Oscar.

Emma Stone as a woman with an infant's brain discovering the world; Lanthimos' Victorian fantasy.

Two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they think is an alien; Lanthimos and Emma Stone again.

Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.

Dinner guests who cannot leave the room, for weeks; Bunuel in Mexico.

A butcher's apartment block in a post-apocalyptic France; Jeunet and Caro's bedspring rhythm.

A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.