7/10 (IMDB)

Kinds of Kindness

2h 43m Comedy | Drama

Kinds of Kindness

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.

Director

Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast

Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons

Rating

R

Year

2024

Country

Ireland, United Kingdom

Language

English


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Reviews

  • "A deceptively dense piece of work filled with moments that articulate the complexity of the human condition."
    - The Playlist
  • "The effect of it all is elegant and overwhelmingly stylish, yet maybe there’s not a superabundance of substance to go with the style. 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."
    - The Guardian
  • "As for kindness itself, I can’t say much jumped out on a first viewing, unless it was of the you-have-to-be-cruel-to-be sort. But it’s exactly the sort of film that makes you want to look again"
    - The Telegraph
  • "The spirit king of the Greek Weird Wave has produced a profoundly puzzling, dizzyingly disturbing and dark-hearted set of loosely-connected stories which manage to be discordantly amusing and strangely exhilarating – a cinematic salt-rub."
    - Screen Daily

Awards

  • Cannes Film Festival

Festivals

  • IndieLisboa International Film Festival
  • Brussels Int'l Film Festival
  • Sydney Film Festival
  • Mediterrane Film Festival
  • Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival
  • Filmfest München