Kinds of Kindness Review: A Darkly Peculiar Anthology By A mere six months after director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone released their Oscar-winning movie Poor Things, they have another movie up their sleeve. is yet another collaboration between the actor-director duo that started in 2018 with The Favourite. This absurdist dark comedy-drama anthology movie throws in some additional Poor Things alum with Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley and gives us quite a fascinating little experience that’s just as peculiar, dark, and superb as Lanthimos’s other works.
Kinds of Kindness does not unfold like your traditional narrative piece. Instead of one long story, we have three separate (but loosely connected) stories that all feature the same actors playing different characters in each story. It seems like what we would get if Lanthimos directed Pulp Fiction, with all of these stories going on that all share a few overarching ideas but are all quite different.
The tone of all these stories embraces absurdism and puts the characters in strange, wholly original situations that are very twisted in the best ways. Let’s take this movie on one by one: the first story stars Jesse Plemons as Robert, a man seeking freedom from his boss Raymond (Dafoe). This is a very well-paced, well-directed idea taken to its full potential.
The idea here surrounds Raymond having a very strange amount of control over Robert’s life and how that ends up affecting Robert’s relationship with hi.