Yorgos Lanthimos: “It's up to the spectator to think if freedom is a prison”

Two years ago, Yorgos Lanthimos discovered that his back pain was the result of a poorly fused vertebra that broke during his time as a basketball player in the first division Greek league, at Pagkrati BC. At that time, he didn't even realize that the vertebra made a "crack", so obsessed was he with basketball. This anecdote tells us a lot about his creative universe, populated by characters who interpret pain as a form of relationship with the …