‘Many rules are just thrown out the window’

Νot even nine months have passed since director Yorgos Lanthimos triumphed in Venice by winning the Golden Lion award with "Poor Things" and the Greek filmmaker managed to create yet another film, this time sending it to the competition section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. "Kinds of Kindness," which will be released in Greek cinemas on May 30, finds Lanthimos joining forces once again with longtime collaborator Efthimis Filippou for the script, in order for the two to tell three different myths (mainly) around power, control, love, loss and loyalty, using the same actors in different roles. The mission was, of course, very demanding, but the cast that took it on was of exceptional quality, led by Emma Stone - who now seems to be forever tied to the Greek director - and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons.

The latter received the "baptism of fire" in Lanthimos' particular way of...