PETER BRADSHAW reviews KINDS OF KINDNESS

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[@oanasav4633]

So good to discover your reviews in this format too. Huge congrats! And lookibg fwd to buy the book as well!

[@PeterBradshaw1]

Thank you - hope you enjoy it - tell me what you think!

[@alexandrosalexandropoulos4836]

Great review, as always. Trivia hard to know if not Greek (I am!): The guy who plays R.M.F. is very famous notary here in Athens! The movie is very good but not for the faint at heart, obviously!

[@oranj.h]

Going back further than Charlie Kaufman, this sounds so much like a Peter Greenaway setup. I'm looking forward to catching this at my local cinema!

[@PeterBradshaw1]

Great!

[@ftis2588]

Can’t wait to watch! Thank you as always Peter. Enjoying watching your videos during my lunch break 😊

[@PurushaDesa]

One of the reasons the film feels long is that the clearest, most accessible and mainstream story comes first, and then the second two are as weird and cryptic as Lanthimos' older work. I dare say that as a greedy philistine, I could quite happily just watch a 90 minute cut The Death of RMF on its own. Best Actor nod for Plemons, please.

[@paulhover9311]

Excellent review, and I'll certainly watch this film, but maybe it's time for him to make something slightly more warm hearted. Like Lynch did with The Straight Story. Enjoying your film review book, I've already added Grand Central and The Man Who Wasn't There to my Prime Video watchlist.

[@paulmurphy5306]

I saw 'Kinds of Kindness' last evening. Although there were many amusing and interesting sequences I felt that the film was too long and my patience was tested, a bit. At the end the audience left immediately and I was the only one to wait to the end of the credits, also part of the film, of course. Although the film seeks to depict First World despair, should I destroy my car, or cruelly mutilate my dog, or just cut out my liver, its pretty useless after all, I think, in the end, that it succumbs to despair. I'm sure Lanthimos and his co-writer need a rest now.

[@natalieweekes8288]

Far too long. Too self conscious. I had great hopes for the film but was disappointed

[@markkenny2001]

Hello Peter, I wonder is Kinds of Kindess (2024) is a psychedelic film just like Poor Things (2024)?

[@guest_informant]

1. Compromising to fit in at work 2. Compromising to fit in in a relationship 3. Compromising to fit in with a community In each part there are those being compromised but also those 'inflicting' the compromises. 1 and 2 made the most sense to me. 1. All the personal compromises of work, eg not having children might have been (even) more obvious if the Jesse Plemons character was a woman, but men are involved having children too - for now at least :-) 2. How much we want to change others, and how much we are willing/desperate to change in a relationship to please another. If you/I just cut out your/my liver then we will finally be happy. Put like that it's almost a fairy tale. 3. This didn't resonate anywhere near as much as the other two personally; maybe I'm just not community-minded enough :-)

[@charleysurf1]

Nice succinct review

[@paulmurphy5306]

After Donald Sutherland died I re-watched 'Klute' and another Pakula film 'The Parallax View'. It seems to me that even though the inner toughness of the characters in these films belies political naivety, there still is a concrete political message at the other end. I don't have that sense from Yorgos Lanthimos's films. There's not much at the other end, hyper-reality, a world of odds and ends that wants to be neatly summarised, political correctness of an altogether alternate kind or a story re-told like 'Frankenstein' in a heroic, feminist mould. It would have been better for Lanthimos if he had just cleaned windows.

[@AdamqK]

After the funny and freewheeling "The Favourite" and the bonkers, imaginative and visionary "Poor Things", the director retreated back to the deadpan, low-key and monotonous style of "Killing of a Sacred Deer", assembling a cast of the best, most wonderfully idiosyncratic film performers and made them all act as if they'd been lobotomised, draining them of every aspect that has always made them interesting to watch. This is an overlong, stilted, stultifying film that bored me stiff. Bradshaw does it again!

[@ktom5262]

Could Bradshaw be even more pretentious? I doubt it. If he could he would.

[@charleysurf1]

Grow up.

[@Gavin48]

Hey troll get a life

[@ftis2588]

Bradshaw is thoughtful and fair critic, who many of us enjoy reading and also watching here on KZbin. I’m sorry for your terrible lack of manners and understanding.

[@ktom5262]

@@ftis2588 I don't question that he's thoughtful and fair, I question that he often uses pretentious vocabulary.