I don't remember exactly when this clickbait title settled in my mind, possibly even before seeing Kinds of Kindness, somehow anticipating the pro and con noise that usually arises around Lanthimos' films. It's not that his latest effort doesn't meet some artistic expectations, nor that it has anything in common with Radu Jude's film – although connections could be found if someone looked hard enough. And therein lies the problem, the over-interpretation, the need to find the red thread, which works the same for those who (say they) have found it and for the detractors: by digging for hidden meanings, the film as an experience gets buried under ballast.

Andrei Sendrea

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Film critic and journalist, UNATC graduate. Andrei Sendrea wrote for LiterNet, Gândul, FILM and Film Menu, and worked as an editor on the "Ca-n Filme" TV Show. In his free time, he works on his collection of movie stills, which he organizes into idiosyncratic categories. At Films in Frame, he writes the Watercooler Wednesdays column - the monthly top of TV shows/series.

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