"It Is Like a Palette Cleanser, In a Way...": Yorgos Lanthimos on Following Poor Things with the Sardonic Portmanteau Film, Kinds of Kindness

The organizing principles of portmanteau films are often quite simplistic. A group of directors tackling a particular genre, for example, or films united by geography. An example of the latter is the straightforwardly-titled New York Stories, of which only Martin Scorsese’s “Life Lessons” is remembered much these days. Jim Jarmusch has made a few united around theme and setting -- Coffee and Cigarettes, where famous actors sit down over a brew and a smoke; Night on Earth, where famous acto...