"It sounds like the premise for a smug Ruben Östlund satire: The wealthiest people in the world gather together for a glamorous and environmentally-minded charity gala in a Santorini mine quarry, only for the function to be invaded by the heavily armed members of a feral youth cult - led by an immaculate Anya Taylor-Joy, her character styled and scripted like a Hideo Kojima fever dream - who say they need to hurl three of the guests into a nearby volcano in order to fulfill"
"It's also a society so thoroughly self-convinced that "stories have the power to change the world" that telling them has become the only meaningful action it has the courage to take. And if "Sacrifice" reserves the brunt of its satire for such neoliberal sloganeering (familiar to anyone who's gone to a North American film festival over the last 15 years), Gavras' wild swing almost works because it also believes in those words with more conviction than the average movie would ever"
Sacrifice stages a glamorous, eco-minded charity gala in a Santorini mine quarry that is seized by a heavily armed feral youth cult demanding three guests be hurled into a volcano to fulfill a prophecy. The film shifts from propulsive comedy into a dreamlike modern fable, blending satirical shots at elite performative activism with surreal, fever-dream flourishes. Characters—terrorists and hostages alike—are used to probe truth, performance, and rituals of cleansing through death amid an ego-driven society that confuses heroes with clowns. The film argues that stories have transformative power even when they fail to change the world.
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