Kinetta (film)

During off-season at the Greek seaside resort of Kinetta, three perfect strangers—a police officer out of uniform with a thing for German luxury cars and Russian women, an eccentric photographer, and a hotel chambermaid—join forces for a rather strange reason: to recreate homicides. Meticulously and with an almost ritualistic approach, the unlikely trio reenact crime scenes of brutal murders, to the point where the boundaries of their own private lives slowly begin to blur.

The film received mixed reception from mainstream critics, however On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes,the film has a 17% approval rating based on review from 6 critics.[2] John DeFore, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, praised the movie's ability to provoke its audience, with the intrusion of humorous shots or moments of color into the otherwise "drearily wintry" aesthetic. He also asserted longtime fans would enjoy the movie, as it "...introduces themes that would continue even into his lauded English-language work."[3]

Ben Kenigberg, writing to The New York Timeshad a mixed review, While "Kinetta" offers glimpses of visual and staging ideas that Lanthimos would explore more fully in his later works, it remains a cryptic curiosity. The film lacks dialogue and takes time to clarify the dynamics of its characters. Lanthimos used a handheld camera extensively, which some find more irritating than purposeful. In hindsight, Lanthimos would develop a smoother and more controlled sense of filmmaking in his subsequent works.[4]

Varierty praised Kinetta," diverges significantly from his previous work. The narrative drifts into a state of dramatic stasis, with eccentric characters and their strange desires. Lanthimos explores the idea that everyone has private weaknesses but avoids conventional storytelling and satire. The actors deliver somnambulistic performances in cryptic roles. Technically, the film presents challenges, with a handheld camera creating an unsettling viewing experience.[5]

The film was not released theatrically in the United States in 2005. In 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image played the film for nine days in October.[6]

• Evangelia Randou
• Aris Servetalis
• Costas Xikominos
• Youlika Skafida
• Hector Kaloudis

• Kinetta at IMDb