A24 S Lamb Is A Twisted Family Movie Joy
Such is the startling setup of Lamb, a bizarre and lyrical film which on paper sounds like the punchline to a barroom joke. Yet writer-director Jóhannsson, working from a screenplay he co-wrote with the poet Sjórn, smothers any sense of humor or irony beneath an unrelenting tide of naturalism and even sentiment. Indeed, the most disturbing thing is how non-disturbing it ultimately becomes. This is a film which can be downright blissful in its domesticity....