The Emma Stone-starrer film 바카라˜Kinds of Kindness바카라™, directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, rocked the Cannes Film Festival with an anthology of stories about sex cults, cannibalism, and general debauchery.
The absurdist anthology film is a follow-up to 바카라˜Poor Things바카라™, which earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for Emma Stone, reports 바카라˜Variety바카라™.
바카라˜Kinds of Kindness바카라™ received a 4.5-minute standing ovation, with the director and his cast, including Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, and Joe Alwyn, leaving while the applause was still going.
As per 바카라˜Variety바카라™, the film tells three distinctive stories, with cast members playing different roles in each. There were a few walkouts during the Cannes premiere, most of them coming after the film바카라™s gorier, second chapter. Lanthimos abruptly left the screening and didn바카라™t speak to audience members once the clapping stopped.
The film, like many of Lanthimos바카라™ avant-garde offerings, overflows with outre plot twists as well as some outrageous moments like Chau licking sweat off her followers as part of a cult ritual, a man who becomes convinced his wife is a pod person, some group sex, and of course, Stone바카라™s epic breakdance moves and positively reckless driving.
There are also culinary delights that aren바카라™t for the faint of stomach, as well as a sprinkle of mutilations and graphic violence that might upset the squeamish. Intermixed throughout is Lanthimos바카라™ absurdist humour, much of which the Cannes crowd seemed to enjoy.
