Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Country: EIRE/GB/US/GR
Technical: col/2.39:1 164m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Three stories concerning a certain R.M.F. In the first, an employee abases himself to the extent of committing murder in order to be 'in with his boss'; in the second, a husband is reunited with his castaway wife, only to reject her as an impostor; in the third, a wife and mother rejects her family to be part of a cult devoted to purity of essence.
Review:
The director and Filippou's most alienating film yet nevertheless shares the mastery of form of its predecessor, Poor Things. Whether this will be sufficient consolation for most viewers is moot, however. As we observe the same gallery of grotesques (which in some actors' cases is more trying than others) being singularly unkind to each other, we are left to ponder the interlocking themes: family and having children, road accidents, twins, body trauma, dysfunctional sex. Obviously, the makers are also punning on the different meanings of 'kind', in the Shakespearean sense of 'more than kin but less than kind', but to justify so much unedifying misanthropy under the umbrella of human kind ultimately offends our sense of self.
Country: EIRE/GB/US/GR
Technical: col/2.39:1 164m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Three stories concerning a certain R.M.F. In the first, an employee abases himself to the extent of committing murder in order to be 'in with his boss'; in the second, a husband is reunited with his castaway wife, only to reject her as an impostor; in the third, a wife and mother rejects her family to be part of a cult devoted to purity of essence.
Review:
The director and Filippou's most alienating film yet nevertheless shares the mastery of form of its predecessor, Poor Things. Whether this will be sufficient consolation for most viewers is moot, however. As we observe the same gallery of grotesques (which in some actors' cases is more trying than others) being singularly unkind to each other, we are left to ponder the interlocking themes: family and having children, road accidents, twins, body trauma, dysfunctional sex. Obviously, the makers are also punning on the different meanings of 'kind', in the Shakespearean sense of 'more than kin but less than kind', but to justify so much unedifying misanthropy under the umbrella of human kind ultimately offends our sense of self.
Country: EIRE/GB/US/GR
Technical: col/2.39:1 164m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Three stories concerning a certain R.M.F. In the first, an employee abases himself to the extent of committing murder in order to be 'in with his boss'; in the second, a husband is reunited with his castaway wife, only to reject her as an impostor; in the third, a wife and mother rejects her family to be part of a cult devoted to purity of essence.
Review:
The director and Filippou's most alienating film yet nevertheless shares the mastery of form of its predecessor, Poor Things. Whether this will be sufficient consolation for most viewers is moot, however. As we observe the same gallery of grotesques (which in some actors' cases is more trying than others) being singularly unkind to each other, we are left to ponder the interlocking themes: family and having children, road accidents, twins, body trauma, dysfunctional sex. Obviously, the makers are also punning on the different meanings of 'kind', in the Shakespearean sense of 'more than kin but less than kind', but to justify so much unedifying misanthropy under the umbrella of human kind ultimately offends our sense of self.