A defunct Greek resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. A plain-clothes cop with a passion for automobiles, tape recorders and Russian women investigates a series of recent murders in the area. He enlists the help of a photo-store clerk, a loner type who is a part-time videographer for local functions, and a young hotel maid, who performs the role of the female victims. This oddball trio engages in a succession of murder re-enactments, directed by the cop with exhaustive attention to detail but questionable scientific purpose. "This description suggests Kinetta might be a naughty kink-fest. But there's a stony calmness to it, with little dialogue or music and no firm conclusions. The film is, by turns, harsh, mysterious, obscure, striking, involving and compellingly driven. At times it appears to be about nothing; at other times, it addresses numerous possibilities. All this is just as Lanthimos planned: he wants his movie to be as many different things as possible… Kinetta was shot with a handheld camera, one that wobbles and glides and occasionally misses the actors; again, part of the design. Lanthimos wanted the camera 'to really interact with the actors and improvise as they did. It was also about letting mistakes in, and not really being stylized about framing, to let it be spontaneous, not perfected in every area. Which in the end makes it stylized.'" Michael Leo
Production + World Sales: Haos Films
Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Yiorgos Kakanis
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Sound: Stephanos Efthimiou
Producer: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Cast: Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Kostas Xikominos
Format, screen ratio: 35mm, 1:1.66, Color
Running time: 95 minutes, 24 frames/sec.
Language: Greek
