Kinds of Kindness
- sombre
- surreal
- cold
- signature
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Our read · Kinds of Kindness (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Kinds of Kindness
What watching it is actually like.
“You want ice-cold Lanthimos cruelty served as three linked moral puzzles.”
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The reading.
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