The score roils with melodic drama in the film’s prologue, which vibrantly depicts a tense heist to steal the titular piano under the cover of darkness and a Fourth of July fireworks show in Mississippi.

But this production offers its own harmonious compensation: modern day verbal panache and a company of vibrantly unconventional actors, led by a galvanizing Iwuji in a performance of unmistakable beauty.

I expect “Kinds of Kindness” to take its place among that latter group, with its vibrantly, defiantly off-putting stance and sidesplittingly sick sense of humor.

The performances are vibrantly drawn, though the staging was less precise at Thursday’s opening night performance.

It’s Mexico City in the early 1970s, and it feels vibrantly alive.