Watching a Yorgos Lanthimos film invariably leads to esoteric questions. Via “Dogtooth”: Why are you calling an armchair a “sea”? From “The Lobster”: If you had to be irreversibly changed into an animal, which one would you pick? And, thanks to Lanthimos’s new short, “Bleat,” co-commissioned by the Greek National Opera and cultural nonprofit NEON: Does a dead body still produce saliva? (Another question, posed to the film’s star, Emma Stone, at an Athens press conference on May 5: “Can cannibalism, death, and passion all exist under the same umbrella?”)
Song of the Goats
On filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s operatic short film, “Bleat”
