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CANNES, France – Director Yorgos Lanthimos, who was at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday with his second Emma Stone-produced feature “Kinds of Kindness,” said his often funny movies are less funny than what’s going on. . In this world.
Lanthimos has made his name with absurdist black comedies like “The Lobster”, where lonely people turn when they can’t find a partner, and the Frankenstein-inspired “Poor Things”. Their new Cannes competition entry is no exception.
“The Kind of Kindness” is told in three parts, with different storylines but the same actors and themes, including paranoia, power dynamics in relationships, and the extent of violence.
“Don’t you think there’s something wrong with the world? Maybe more so than the movies we make,” Lanthimos said at a press conference on Saturday, the day after the film’s premiere.
“My work and other people’s work probably reflect the world, and you try to find the best way to do it,” he said at the event alongside Stone, along with the film’s stars including Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe. said in. ,
Critics were generally favorable to the film: Variety called it a “bizarre concoction bound to baffle and delight in equal measure”, while The Guardian described it as a “terrible, absurd triptych” and Gave four stars out of five.
The film was initially inspired by Caligula, the eccentric third ruler of the Roman Empire, and the idea of one man having complete control over another, Lanthimos said.
Although he could not provide further details, he said that his filmmaking process was more intuitive than intellectual.
“And I think it’s much more validating for people who watch the movies and have their own perspective,” he told reporters.
“Kinds of Kindness” marks the third time Stone and Lanthimos have teamed up, following the 2018 royal dramas “The Favorite” and “Poor Things,” which won multiple Oscars this year.
“I’m attracted to his stories. I’m attracted to his movies. I’m attracted to the way he sees the world and his characters and the way he does it all,” Stone said.
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