Anticipate Yorgos Lanthimos's KINDS OF KINDNESS

This was a fucking mess.

Well acted and it looked good, but it seemed like it was written in a day from a bunch of madlibs.

Agree! My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze. If these stories couldn't support a full-length script then they're not good enough to make a film out of, end of story.

I did laugh at the Dio bit though.

And the cop's home video.

My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze. If these stories couldn't support a full-length script then they're not good enough to make a film out of,

Or just make & release them separately as shorts? I'd rather see a good short that uses its time wisely, just as long as it needs to be, than an overly-padded feature.

Jesus...I've only seen one other Lanthimos film (The Killing of a Sacred Deer), and while I remember that as being strange, there's that kind of strange and then there's this. The only thing I can discuss with any ground underneath me is the music. Immediately, he completely flubs "Sweet Dreams" (better in the trailer). Two hours and forty minutes later, in a 164-minute film, there's 45 seconds that are the most thrilling 45 seconds of movie-music I've seen in a while. The rest I watched slack-jawed, except when I turned away from the screen, which I did a few times. Also: I'm Greek!

I can’t argue with the criticisms but I liked this. After two complicated, effects-heavy, ambitious best picture-nominated films I don’t begrudge him emptying out his idea notebooks and clearing his throat with a minor work. It won’t make my year-end list but it was fun. Jesse Plemons unsuccessfully trying out his “hurt hand” routine got a huge laugh from me.

My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze.

I wish more name directors would do this! Blow off steam and throw together weird, cheap, low stakes, not-entirely-thought-out quickie movies in between bigger projects. Take my money.

^^More directors need an After Hours.

Lol

Also there was that multi-director triptych he was part of

NEW YORK STORIES

It's still lingering in my mind two days later. When I start to describe it to friends, I start by dramatically announcing "I don't even know where to start."

I’ve somehow managed to avoid this guy prior to this film so went in mostly blind and kind of liked it

Coming off a film that got so much mainstream attention, this one seems not to have gotten much (though I could well be missing it). Maybe it's length works against it--almost three hours.

This one seemed especially indebted to (post) modern literary fiction, rather than cinematic sources - it's not much of a leap to get from Kinds of Kindness to a Coover or Barthelme short story.

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