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Anyone who regularly reads this site knows that I typically do my best to avoid spoilers within a review. That would be a practically impossible goal for the movie under review this week. Please be warned that, if you haven’t already seen The Drama, here there be spoilers. Proceed with the appropriate amount of caution.
Characters describing their dreams is a prominent part of Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest exercise in batshit what-the-fuckery. This salient feature of the picture – which the director cowrote with longtime collaborator Efthimis Filippou – is so striking because to describe the movie itself is like telling someone upon waking about a series of dreams you had during the previous night. In Kinds of Kindness, Lanthimos, the crown prince of Greek Weird Wave cinema, has crafted a movie that makes his last effort, the befuddling Poor Things, look like a classical Hollywood musical by comparison.
