Synospis: A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife’s demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
Find the links for reviews, interviews, and more for Kinds of Kindness submitted by AFCA members here:
Andrew Fraser – Rough Cut – Review: Actors’ Playground: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Punishing Freedoms
- Excerpt: The director, with the assistance of longtime writing partner Efthimis Filippou, triples down on his pet themes of domination, alienation, and humiliation. Lanthimos is famous for placing his characters in situations where the absurdity of human behaviour is turned up to eleven. In Kinds of Kindness, new relationships begin with self-inflicted injury, a body part is offered as proof of companionship, and a character’s worthiness is assessed based on the purity of their sweat. The most mundane of actions are rendered as excruciating or life-threatening tasks, the body is always in a state of duress, and his performer’s stylised affectations amplify the ludicrous ways people sabotage even the most vital of human needs: connection.
- Film Festival: Sydney Film Festival
Kahn Duncan – Novastream – Review: Kinds of Kindness Review – Anything but Kind
- Excerpt: Kinds of Kindness is an intelligent, mean, disturbed, and crazed endeavour that will alienate as much as it will enthral. With an excellent ensemble cast, arresting cinematography, darkly comical humour, and a provocative outlook on existence – it may be nasty, but it is daring filmmaking, nonetheless.
- Rating: 4/5
Kyle McGrath – Lilithia Reviews – Review: Kinds of Kindness – Film Review
- Excerpt: It’s not exactly an easy film to unpack and you’ll be left scratching your head wondering what it all means (if anything).
- Rating: 3/5
Nadine Whitney – The Curb – Review: Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos is Cruel to be Kind
- Excerpt: Kinds of Kindness feeds into the human malaise; the need to be loved and to belong. There is no mistaking that the film views the base need to be connected as an act of self-degradation.