The Greek director and the Oscar winner are teaming up again in a new title that will hit theaters this year.
It hasn’t been long since Emma Stone won his second Oscar for poor creatures and yet, we already have available the first trailer of Kinds of Kindnesshis new film under the orders of Yorgos Lanthimos. This new drama directed by the Greek filmmaker represents the third collaboration between the actress and the director in two years, but if this were not enough, both still have pending in 2024, the premiere of a still untitled film shot in the homeland of the director. Produced again by Searchlight Pictures, the film will address three different stories that will act as a fable in which Stone will not be the only recognizable face.
The trailer of Kinds or Kindness It shows us other performers who have wanted to work again, under the gaze of Lanthimos. Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualleywhom we already saw in the adaptation of the work by Alasdair Gray and Joe Alwyn, who, like Stone, also appeared in The favourite. Likewise, the production will continue to belong to Disney, although it has been Searchlight Pictures, instead of Fox Searchlight, the responsible for distributing the filmagain Irish-funded.
What do we find in the first trailer for ‘Kinds of Kindness’?
Far from Lanthimos’ last two approaches to the Victorian era, this time, the trailer for Kinds or kindness reveals to us that this is a contemporary plot, far from the baroque style generated in The favourite and poor creatures. The official synopsis of the film is the following: “Fable in the form of a triptych that tells three stories; that of a trapped man who tries to take the reins of his own life; that of a policeman terrified because his wife, who had disappeared at sea, has returned and looks like a different person and, finally, that of a woman determined to find someone with a special gift, destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. ”. Judging by the preview, we are once again faced with a crazy idea, in which slaps, black humor and even dances return.
For this proposal, the author has once again worked with a script written by Efthymis Filippou, with whom he worked on Canine, the film that established him as a new filmmaker on the rise. Filippou has also written other works by Lanthimos, such as Alps, Lobster, The sacrifice of a sacred deer and the short film Nimic. The project brings together the man from Athens with the director of photography Robbie Ryannominated for two statuettes for poor creatures and The favourite and puts Thomas Newman (Life imprisonment, Finding Nemo).
Kinds or Kindness will hit US theaters next June 21 and it is expected that it will land in theaters in Spain the same summer.
‘Poor creatures’: A surprising and original success
With a budget of 35 million dollars and exceeding the 100 million dollars collection, poor creatures It became, de facto, Lanthimos’ highest-grossing film. Some surprising numbers, taking into account that the adaptation of this kind of feminist Frankenstein is an auteur film, not suitable for the conventions of the average audience, much less for an Oscar ceremony. Of course, it must be noted that this, yes, is ua much more accessible cinema than previous proposals by Lanthimos.
poor creatures ended up taking four figurines, among which we can highlight the consideration for Stone, the best production design, Best costumes and Best makeup and hairdressing. It is currently available on Disney+.
The next 2025 for Emma Stone
The North American performer will sign two premieres in 2024 under the direction of Lanthimos. They will be her only two feature films of the year, but in 2025 she will also have two very different films. On the one hand, the commercial proposal of Cruella 2 for Disney, where he will distribute with the spin-off prequel to the evil villain 101 Dalmatians. For another Eddington, a kind of modern western produced by A24 in which he shared a cast with none other than Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes, among others. This will be directed by filmmaker Ari Aster, responsible for Hereditary and Midsommar.
Kinds of Kindness It will be released at a time conducive to the awards season… Will it once again be a success among critics and the public? Will it get nominations in the main competitions?
