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6 hours ago · Fans of director Yorgos Lanthimos received a gift in June, in the form of his new film Kinds of Kindness. It strays from his two most recent features, Oscar winners Poor Things and The Favourite ...
23 hours ago · But it is perhaps their 2019 collaboration – the short film Nimic (available on MUBI) – that shares a very particular kind of horror with Kinds of Kindness. In Nimic, Matt Dillon is replaced by a stranger who steps into his family home one day and claims to be the ‘real’ version of him. While there are a lot of ideas freewheeling across ...
23 hours ago · With his latest movie, Kinds of Kindness, I’m not so sure. The creativity and daring are abundantly evident, but there is a sense that he’s overlooking his characters as if they are ants, torching them with a magnifying glass and asking us to delight in their misfortunes. In the first of three tales involving an enigmatic individual dubbed ...
3 days ago · The Kindness Of Strangers Kept Him Going. In August, 2020, Andrew Mortenson began a bike journey that eventually touched four continents. First, he rode east across the width of the US, then south as far as roads can take you into South America and, finally, across the Eurasian landmass.
5 days ago · Elder has relished learning about the cultural history of Judaism, while his husband learns about Elder’s heritage—and celebrating all the Mormon, “Christiany,” and Jewish holidays with their soon-to-be-seven-years-old son. First meeting before marriage was legal, the pair didn’t know how to create a family.
4 days ago · What is Kinds of Kindness about? Yorgos said that with Kinds of Kindness he wanted to explore control and power dynamics. But decided to break that up over three separate stories. So while each segment in Kinds of Kindness stands on its own, each parallels the other in exploring ideas of control,
23 hours ago · Kinds of Kindness, like the other works from Lanthimos and Filippou’s partnership, is spikier, intentionally mannered, and far more challenging. But at least when you’re squirming, you know you’re not bored. Rating: 3.5/5. Kinds of Kindness is in cinemas on Thursday, July 11. Culture.
