How Yorgos Lanthimos designed ‘Kinds of Kindness’ to have an off-kilter reality

In ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ the setting plays a part in telling a twisted, modern day fable.

Less than a year after Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos is back with another visually rich film. In Kinds of Kindness, which opened in select theaters last week and expands nationwide this week, Lanthimos created what he calls a “triptych fable,” consisting of three distinct but loosely connected stories.