Kinds of Kindness (18)

★★★ Kinds of Kindness comprises three short films. They all sparkle with Yorgos  Lanthimos's deadpan genius: in his world, everything is just off-kilter enough to be funny, but just real enough to be horrifying. ~ BBC.

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Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer, Kinds of Kindness is 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.

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★★★★✭ Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making; a salacious, sun-bleached fable. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ NME.