Director Yorgos Lanthimos on his Irish-produced period film The Favourite

The Favourite is already being talked up for Oscars. Its director tells Esther McCarthy all about the Irish-produced period film.

HIS dark, singular and wickedly funny films have already established him as one of the most exciting filmmakers working today. Now Yorgos Lanthimos has again joined forces with an Irish production company — a collaboration that could bring them all the way to the Oscars.