And frankly, it makesPoor Thingslook like a Disney movie.

Its a fable made up of three delicious, confounding, interconnected stories.

(Youll have to watch to the end to find out why.)

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Photo: Atsushi Nishijima

At a time when cinema is often maddeningly simplistic or prescriptive,Kinds of Kindnessdelights in its own ambiguity.

Cult classic status loomsand isnt that so much cooler than a shelf full of statuettes?

Kinds of Kindnesswill arrive in theaters on June 21.

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Hong Chau as Sarah and Jesse Plemons as her husband, Robert, in “The death of RMF,” the first section ofKinds of Kindness.

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Willem Dafoe as Raymond and Margaret Qualley as Vivian in “The death of RMF,” the first section ofKinds of Kindness.