17th-century Tuscany, Italy. The sinister Plague threat looms over Europe. Eight-year-old Benedetta Carlini, a devout novice, is taken to the Theatine Convent of Mother of God, Pescia, as Benedetta, a…

Yorgos Lanthimos's movies love to flirt 'often comically' with horror: the fear that behind the façade of society is a gaping maw of existential terror. In this dastardly short, a…