Kinds of Kindness (18)

In this darkly comic triptych fable about spiritual domination; a man tries to wrench back control of his life from a businessman he is indebted to; a policeman is alarmed his wife who was missing and presumed dead has returned; and a sex-obsessed couple does the bidding of a pair of cult leaders.

‘Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone lead three dark, playful and absurd films in one’ – Independent

‘Yorgos Lanthimos’s tricksy triptych is anything but tender’ – Financial Times

‘A quirky, macabre, and devilishly funny enigma that only becomes stranger as each puzzle piece falls into place’ – Rotten Tomatoes 

Director -Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast – Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe

• Seating Accessibility Information

  Cinema

  Seat size

  Seats in the Cinema are 45cm (172/3“) wide and 46cm (18“) deep, are 40cm (152/3“) from the floor, and have 12cm (42/3“) between seats.

  Armrests

  Seats in the Cinema have armrests that do not fold away, and cannot be completely removed.

  Legroom

  Seats in the cinema have 30cm (112/3”) of legroom in front of seats, with additional legroom on row A and seats B1-B4 and B11-B14.

  Further information

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• BBFC rating information (may contain spoilers)

  Violence

  Scenes of violence include a man being run over repeatedly, and a shooting resulting in some bloody detail. Sequences feature controlling and abusive behaviour.

  Threat and horror

  Scenes include gun threat, disturbing and sinister behaviour, and people being locked into a sauna as part of a cult ritual.

  Language

  There is use of strong language (‘f**k’) and milder terms including ‘pussy’, ‘cock’, ‘bitch’, ‘shit’ and ‘crap’.

  Sex

  There are scenes of strong sex, including a brief sequence showing two couples engaging in group sex involving different sex acts and positions. There are occasional sex references.

  Drugs

  It is implied a man has been drugging his partner in order to instigate miscarriages. Another man drugs a woman to render her unconscious.

  Sexual violence and sexual threat

  A sequence of sexual violence includes nudity and a build-up of sexual threat, in which a woman’s former partner drugs and rapes her. She is then blamed for allowing the attack to happen. In another story, it is revealed a man is in thrawl to another man who dictates when the former can have sex. The subjected man has also been causing his wife to miscarry without her knowledge.

  Suicide and self-harm

  People hurt themselves and others out of loyalty to a controlling personality. A woman cuts off her own thumb, and later cuts out her liver, during a disturbing display of loyalty to her partner. A woman takes her own life within a fantastical context. A dog is seen hanging from the neck as an allusion to suicide during a fantasy scene.

  Injury detail

  There are occasional gory and bloody images, including of a severed thumb and a woman’s liver after she has cut it from her body. Bloody detail is also seen in the aftermath of a car crash, and in a scene of implied cannibalism.

  Nudity

  Scenes include full frontal male and female nudity, including in sexualised contexts.

  Disturbing images

  A woman cuts a dog’s leg, but no actual animal cruelty appears to have occured. In a montage of dogs behaving like humans, a dead dog is seen hanging from the neck. There are also disturbing scenes of implied cannibalism, bloodied water in the aftermath of a miscarriage, and people harming themselves and others as an act of loyalty to a controlling personality. After a man is shot, another man attempts to lick blood from the wound.

  Flashing/flickering lights

  This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.