<em>Kinds of Kindness</em> May Test Your Patience
With his new film, Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his freaky-deaky roots—with mixed results.
When I saw Yorgos Lanthimos’s breakout 2009 film, the surreal and violent fable , I did not think the director was destined to grow into a Hollywood brand. Yet that’s exactly what has happened to the Greek filmmaker, whose fascination with human brutality has not stopped him from becoming a recurring Oscar favorite who makes crossover art-house hits. Lanthimos’s steady rise culminated in last year’s , which was somehow one of the feel-good hits of the fall: a freaky tale set in steampunk
