There's no point in beating around the bush Kinds of kindness is Lanthimos' most personal film since his American career began. Themes, style and acting direction are the trademark of this who is to all intents and purposes, for better or for worse, one of the most recognizable authors on the current international cinema scene. 

This work was released close to the international, and above all European, success of Poor Creatures! and at the beginning it seemed like a small episodic entertainment filmed between friends during the post-production of the previous one: in reality, nothing could be more wrong. 

Because Kinds of kindness is a structured, complete and organic film that does not seek any shortcuts, but with a harsh and sarcastic style encounters crude metaphors that speak of love, dependence, pain, incommunicability and society. The three episodes stand on their own, but right from their title it is clear that they depend on each other and the choice to always use the same actors is a confirmation of this. 

Lanthimos' game is an intellectual and provocative game that cannot please everyone and is not enough for some. Personally, I am among the people who got caught up in his game of references. Between the dream, the nightmare and reality there is a philosophical space in which the ethics of man moves and it is precisely in this delicate space that the Greek director works. It's all incredible and yet so darkly true that it enters the viewer's brain and asks him ethical, never rhetorical questions. 

Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe are joined by a rising actor like Jesse Plemons, awarded best actor at Cannes. And the cast certainly works. Just like the film that did not receive great ovations at Cannes and yet I believe it is a film worth seeing (for someone with their hand over their eyes at times).