Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are quickly becoming cinema’s next great director/actor pairing, like Marty and Leo, or Christopher Nolan and every famous white man. (I kid, but …) After winning four Oscars for Poor Things, Lanthimos and Stone are back with Kinds of Kindness.
Searchlight Pictures, which also distributed Poor Things, has set a June 21 release date for Kinds of Kindness, the next movie from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos. Emma Stone headlines a cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer, and reunites Stone with Poor Things co-stars Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley.
The new teaser trailer for Kinds of Kindness is just as ambiguous about the plot as the first, if not more so. Lanthimos seems to be back on his weirdo kick, and I’m into it:
And here’s the first teaser trailer, in case you missed it:
Kinds of Kindness is presented as a triptych—an anthology of three stories, so it’s sort of like we’re getting three new Lanthimos movies in one. Here’s the official synopsis:
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 briefly described the structure of the film to The Guardian back in December. “It’s a contemporary film, set in the U.S.—three different stories, with four or five actors who play one part in each story, so they all play three different parts,” he explained. “It was almost like making three films, really.”
“It’s great to be working again with Emma,” Lanthimos added. “It makes it so much easier to have someone there who trusts you so much, and who you trust so much.” If you kept up with awards season, you undoubtedly saw Lanthimos and Stone gushing over each other, and it seems like they’ve developed a really rewarding professional and personal relationship—one that we’ll continue to benefit from this summer, when Kinds of Kindness hits theaters.
This article has been updated.
(featured image: Screenshot / Searchlight Pictures)
