Film festivals Cannes Film Festival 2017

A video preview of The Killing of a Sacred Deer starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman

A video preview of The Killing of a Sacred Deer starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Raffey Cassidy. In this picture, the domestic and the banal are upended by a chilly, creeping terror of uncertainty and illness. Here’s a video preview of what our chief film critic Sam Gray described as the “high point of the festival, and one of the best films that this world-class director has ever made”.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer does not have a UK release date yet.

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