What happens to auteur theory when a film director appears to be two markedly different auteurs at the same time? If you were working on a unified theory of surrealist director Yorgos Lanthimos that established a continuum between his early works in Greece, his English-language breakthroughs The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and his period Oscar contenders The Favouriteand Poor Things, get ready to scrap it. Lanthimos’ new movie, Kinds of Kindness, arriving just six months after Poor Things, is a hard left turn — or perhaps a jump into a parallel universe that establishes two distinct tracks to the director’s career.