“Open your eyes, and look clearly at what’s going on around you…” Searchlight Pictures has just unveiled another official trailer for Kinds of Kindness, the brand new Yorgos Lanthimos film arriving this summer to watch. It just premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival a few weeks ago, where Jesse Plemons won the Best Actor award at the end of the fest (here’s our review). This triptych film features three medium-length stories in one long feature (that runs almost 3 hours in total). As his follow-up to the Oscar-winning Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness is described as an anthology film with three segments – 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 a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability. The exquisite ensemble cast in this: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, and Krystal Alayne Chambers. Yes it’s as weird and wacky and strange as you might expect from Lanthimos, much moreso than Poor Things. Not for everyone…
You can rewatch the first look teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness right here, for more footage.
From visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos, 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. Kinds of Kindness is directed by by acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the movies My Best Friend, Kinetta, Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, and 2023’s Poor Things. The screenplay is written by Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s produced by Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Kasia Malipan. This just premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival playing in the Main Competition, where it won the Best Actor prize for Jesse Plemons in the film. Searchlight Pictures opens Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness in select US theaters on June 21st, 2024 this summer. Who’s down?
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