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.
[3] 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.
"[4] Ben Kenigberg, writing to The New York Times had 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.
In hindsight, Lanthimos would develop a smoother and more controlled sense of filmmaking in his subsequent works.”[5] Variety praised Kinetta," diverges significantly from his previous work.