Cannes Film Festival, 2024.
Winner: Jesse Plemons. Best Actor.
Such a rare case when it is difficult to express your opinion about a film that you like. The fact is that the main roles in the film are played by artists who, according to their external data, I can not stand. You don't like it! This is Emma Stone, Defoe and Plemons.
I must say that the film genre is more like an art house. Moreover, it consists of three almost unrelated stories.
First kindness. Plemons plays an adult who can not solve any of his desires on his own: from the simplest thing to eat for breakfast to solving issues of professional activity. There was a man (Defoe) who completely controls him and makes him perform various insidious errands, from which the hero of Plemons begins to feel that he went crazy.
Second kindness. Plemons' hero's wife disappears. She (Stone) is actively sought by the police and about a year later finds her on a desert island. But the real joy did not happen, because the husband feels that his wife for good reasons was replaced by a very similar woman, whom he gradually begins to hate and makes her do terrible things.
Third kindness. Same characters: Defoe, Stone and Plemons. Here, the heroine of Stone is looking for a man who would have supernatural powers to revive the dead. They must be twins, one of whom died. And there is a woman whose sister conducts such experiments on animals (she is a veterinarian). Yes, this woman is suitable, but the twin sister is alive, and experiments on people may not work.
As shown in the film (about three hours), not everyone will like it. Some scenes of kindness can cause vomiting. Director Lanthimos in this regard is entertained to the fullest. In 2024, he won an Oscar for The Poor, the Unhappy. I didn't see it because of Defoe and Emma Stone.