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If our world should one day cease to exist, and some improved civilization from another galaxy stumbles upon our popular culture and seeks to understand all the fuss about Emma Stone well, we now have the film clip they should see.os..
Its toward the end of her latest collab with Yorgos Lanthimos, the challenging, intriguing, perplexing-if-not-downright- infuriatingly-opaque Kinds of Kindness..
Lanthimos, working for a fifth time with screenwriter Efthimis Filippou , has created a triptych three mini-films with the same cast. A solidifying troupe of Lanthimos regulars appears, with Willem Dafoe, one of the most distinctive actors in the universe, rejoining Stones Bella from Poor Things, joined now by a terrific Jesse Plemons, who won the best actor prize at Cannes, as well as Hong Chau, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and Joe Alwyn..
These three segments, which together run close to three hours, are separate stories with different characters, and an overarching theme that can best be explained by parsing the lyrics of a Eurythmics song. . Sweet dreams are made of this, goes the iconic song, with which Lanthimos begins his movie..
We wont spoil any of the mini-endings, though you may find theyre not really endings anyway. feeling you may have at the end of the second part cant fester, because soon were in a cult, where the only liquid members can drink is sanctified by the tears of creepy leader Omi and wife Aka ..
