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Myth-ed Connections: 'The Killing Of A Sacred Deer'

Yorgos Lanthimos' deadpan film explores the friendship between a cardiologist (Colin Farrell) and an odd young man (Barry Keoghan) with mysterious intentions.
Not Your Usual Stag Film: Anna (Nicole Kidman) has a good reason to look pensive in <em>The Killing of a Sacred Deer.</em>

We need to talk about Keoghan.

That would be Barry Keoghan, the 25-year-old Irishman who has given two superb but wildly different performances this year playing characters about a decade younger. Pockmarked of cheek and heavy of brow, Keoghan's face looks like it hasn't quite set yet. In he was a civilian boy who meets a tragic end while trying to assist in the seaborne rescue of stranded British soldiers Keoghan has a substantially larger role as a lonely but preternaturally self-assured kid whose father has died while undergoing a heart operation.

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