“Kinds of Kindness,” which debuted in competition at Cannes on Friday, was another amusing and surreal picture from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone.
The trilogy, which features the same actors narrating three distinct stories, was shot while the Greek director finished editing his feminist Frankenstein remake, “Poor Things,” for which Stone received an Oscar.
Dark humor, best displayed by Willem Dafoe as a weird guru in an orange speedo and one extremely shocking home movie that garnered a lot of laughter at Cannes screenings, counterbalances its occasionally disgusting sequences.
“I thought it was funny and Emma thought it was funny, but we didn’t know if people are going to find it funny,” Lanthimos said before the premiere.
In early reviews, the Guardian called it a “macabre, absurdist triptych”, while Variety called it a “quizzical concoction bound to baffle and delight”.
Lanthimos said that, as trust grows between him and Stone, the duo has become “more bold and more brave”.
