‘Kinds of Kindness’ trailer: Emma Stone is back with Yorgos Lanthimos in first teaser for new anthology [Watch]
It’s fun to think that when Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos were on the Oscar campaign trail during the early months of the year, they already had a new project under their belts. “Kinds of Kindness” marks the third straight feature collaboration between actress and director (and Searchlight Pictures) after “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” both of which won their leading performers, Olivia Colman and Stone, Best Actress Oscars.
The first teaser for this new joint was released this morning and it’s one of those 46-second clips that tells you absolutely nothing but flashes a ton of cool imagery in your face. Set to a remixed version of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” by the Eurythmics, we see Stone zooming around in a purple muscle car (and dancing in an empty parking lot), a close-up of a dog in black and white, Jesse Plemons getting whapped across the face by Margaret Qualley in a fancy living room, an orange being squeezed, and Hong Chau licking … someone’s torso? It all goes by rather quickly.
Additional cast includes Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, and another “Poor Things” alum, Willem Dafoe.
Searchlight’s synopsis reads: “‘Kinds of Kindness’ is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.”
The Athens-born Yorgos Lanthimos came onto the international scene in 2009 with the oddball psychological drama “Dogtooth” (which also had lots of licking in it) and the project received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film (the category later redubbed as Best International Feature). After another Greek-language picture, “Alps,” he began working with Hollywood talent in 2015 with “The Lobster,” which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
As mentioned, “The Favourite” won Olivia Colman an Oscar, but had 10 nominations in total, including Best Supporting Actress nods for Stone and Rachel Weisz. “Poor Things” had four wins in addition to Stone (Best Production Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Costume Design) and 11 nominations in total, including Best Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo.
“Kinds of Kindness” will be in theaters June 21, which makes the Cannes Film Festival, where “Dogtooth,” “The Lobster,” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” debuted, a possibility for a premiere.
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