Fresh off of 2023’s Poor Things, actor Emma Stone and writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos have teamed up once again in Kinds of Kindness, a very Yorgos Lanthimos-looking film that is set to premiere at and compete in the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Searchlight Pictures put out a thirty-second teaser to commemorate the Cannes opening, which features Stone copying all of my best dance moves in a parking lot next to a purple car and what appears to be a comatose woman in a wheelchair. What’s going on here? I’ve no idea! The synopsis, however, sheds some light on what the plot—and I use that term loosely—may be:
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.
Lanthimos co-wrote Kinds of Kindness with Efthimis Filippou, who was also his scribe-in-crime for The Lobster, Dogtooth, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. In addition to Stone, the movie stars Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, and Hunter Schafer.
Kinds of Kindness is set to premiere in select theaters on June 21, 2024.
Check out the latest teaser trailer below.
