Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn star in Kinds of Kindness, the latest, most challenging movie from Yorgos Lanthimos (Picture: Searchlight)
Just a matter of months after filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone dazzled audiences and Hollywood with the eye-popping, Oscar-winning Poor Things, they’re back with their next film.
And if you thought Poor Things pushed the envelope with its weird, gothic horniness, then Kinds of Kindness is about to knock your socks off with its depravity.
The movie was among a slew of challenging, polarising movies to premiere at Cannes Film Festival this year, and now it’s out in the UK.
A triptych of three not-even-really vaguely connected stories – other than by its actors and uncomfortable material – Kinds of Kindness still has Lanthimos’ unmistakable pitch-black humour running through.
The first is about Robert (Jesse Plemons), a businessman who allows his boss (Willem Dafoe) to control every aspect of his life – up to an including attempting his request that he kill someone in a car crash.
In the second, Plemons is a police officer convinced that his wife Liz (Emma Stone), after her return from being lost at sea, is an imposter. He subsequently asks her to commit increasingly brutal and grotesque acts in a twisted test.
Source:: Metro
