Kinetta (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #52 extract: Kinetta (2005)



There's not much worth in comparing Lanthimos' films to one another in terms of quality as they're all so individually directed and voiced, but, from the jump with his first stand-alone feature (he had co-directed a comedy before this) Lanthimos seems to have been acutely aware of what he wanted and how he was going to achieve it. 
Using the low-budget, incredibly rough aesthetic to his advantage, creating messy motion paintings with bursts of bright colour and blurred figures, Lanthimos tells a tale of seclusion and its little absurdities. One of the most tame and realistic Lanthimos films to date, Kinetta is about a small cast/crew of three individuals trying to shoot an awkward scene for a movie. Very much so about the creation of Lanthimos' idiosyncratic drama, finely tuned into his themes of privacy and care, Kinetta is a silent blur of small happenings that ever so subtly emanate warmth. So glad to have finally been able to watch this movie.

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