Kinds of Kindness
Film details
| Film Title | Kinds of Kindness |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 164mins |
| Year | 2024 |
| Country | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Director | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Actors | Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, Merah Benoit, Krystal Alayne Chambers, Ja'Quan Monroe-Henderson, Abi Beaux, Susan Elle, Nathan Mulligan, Tessa Bourgeois |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
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.
It’s not cynicism but a chuckling curiosity that fuels this sideways parable, which aligns it with Lanthimos’ past work in the most perfect of ways. You can’t say that it’s a movie for everybody. But it takes all kinds.
★★★★
Kinds of Kindness feels heavier and longer than I expected, as if reaching for a meaningful resolution that might not be there. Yet absence and loss is perhaps the whole point.
★★★★
This long, scaldingly original film enthralls even as it frustrates, defying conventional logic while presenting an absurdist riff on modern society. It’s never boring, and yet, Lanthimos’ outré sensibility demands a special brand of patience.
★★★★
