Movie Diary 6/12/2024

Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024). Will review soon. In the meantime, we can say that this is indeed a return to Lanthimos’s earlier, weirder films, three separate stories that take place in recognizable but skewed worlds.

Under Paris (Xavier Gens, 2024). Gigantic shark swims up the Seine; mayhem ensues. You have to credit Gens and star Berenice Bejo for committing to the idiotic material, and there are a handful of shots that convey a dizzying level of crackpot glee. Plus, it’s all about climate change and the trashing of the planet, so this genre exercise has that covered.

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