Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in the latest from the director of “Poor Things” and “The Favourite.” Its confident bleakness isn’t for everyone.
Life is cruel, all is vanity, the house always wins and the cosmic joke is on us. Everything in popular culture conspires to hide these truths from us because they’re a lousy way to make money. Occasionally, however, creative artists turn up to remind us of the facts, and they’re usually not American. Kafka. Nabokov. Buñuel. Maybe Yorgos Lanthimos doesn’t belong in their company yet, but he’s giving it his best shot.
What’s different is the confidence of the filmmaking; the bass note of pitch-black humor; and the support of a devoted stock company that includes Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau and — this movie’s secret weapon — Jesse Plemons. Team Lanthimos is growing, and if “Kinds of Kindness” qualifies as maximum audience punishment, those with strong stomachs and a stronger sense of irony may dig it. I know I did.The movie’s very title seems to be a way of laughing in the dark .
R.M.F. is the name of the minor character played by Stefanakos, who appears briefly in each vignette, and the connections among the three narratives are elusive and subterranean, like the uneasy rhymes one finds in dreams. Unknown things you should have done but didn’t; the sense that something, somewhere, has come permanently unmoored.
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