Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. Written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Budget $15 million. Running time 161 minutes.
After last year's truly fantastic Poor Thing comes this tour-de-force of madness from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, who also directed Lobster, and The Favourite.
Kinds of Kindess defies classification, but what is it is three short stories featuring all the cast in different roles that are all loosely linked by a character known only as R.M.F. Although who he is only revealed in the very last, mid-credit sequence. In each of the three deeply different films characters act in a way that is most certainly dreamlike and as deeply, deeply strange.
In the first: The Death of R.M.F Jesse Plemons plays a man whose entire life is dictated and controlled by Willem Dafoe to the smallest detail. When Jesse rebels, his life is thrown into existential despair, especially when he meets a woman, Stone who seems to be under the spell of Dafoe too.
The second, R.M.F is Flying sees Jesse now playing a policeman whose wife, Stone goes missing only to return but not the same leading to an escalating series of encounters that leads to cannibalism. This is without doubt the absolutely funniest sequence, which left me weak from laughing, seriously I had tears streaming down my face.
The final story, R.M.F Eats a Sandwich, finds Stone now playing a cult member looking for a woman with the power to bring the dead back to life.
This is a true challenge for anyone, if you've seen Poor Things or The Lobster then you know what to expect.
It's bizarre, unsettling, very funny, and deeply creepy, imagine Twin Peaks crossed with Black Mirror and Inside No. 9 and you're still not prepared. Of the three stories the first, The Death of R.M.F is the most satisfying and the last is by far the creepiest.
Me and the daughter loved it, my wife not so much. It's not as good as Poor Things, but it's a weird and bizarre flick that tickled me greatly.
9/10
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