There have been those who have dared to affirm, mainly since the premiere of ‘Poor Creatures’ at the last Venice Film Festival, that the duo formed by Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone is “the most fascinating artistic relationship that has happened to cinema since the breakup of Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard“. A story between muse and filmmaker who finds in ‘Kinds of Kindness’after ‘The Favorite’ and the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray, its third chapter.
Well, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the institution in charge of establishing the rating of feature films in the United States, has classified the triptych financed by Searchlight Pictures, Disney, as R production, claiming that it includes “violent and sexual content, nudity and foul language”. However, it is not the first time that a film by the Golden Lion winner forces people under 17 years of age to attend North American movie theaters accompanied by an adult, since ‘Lobster’, ‘The Sacrifice of a Deer’ sacred’ and ‘The favorite’ received that name.
‘Kinds of Kindness’, which arrives in Spanish theaters on June 28, also has in its cast Jesse Plemons (‘The Power of the Dog’), Willem Dafoe (‘Spider-Man’), Margaret Qualley (‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood’), Hong Chau (‘The Whale’ ), Joe Alwyn (‘The Favorite’), Mamoudou Athie (‘Jurassic World: Dominion’) and Hunter Schafer (‘Euphoria’). The script is written by Lanthimos himself and Efthymis Filippou, who participated in the first four scripts of the man responsible for ‘Canino’ and ‘Alps’.
From Disney punk to pandemic paranoia
Stone’s has been a career of relentless rise toward stardom. Tanned in the romantic and horror comedyas demonstrated by ‘Rumors and Lies’, ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ and ‘Welcome to Zombieland’, she began to make a name for herself as a dramatic actress thanks to ‘Maids and Ladies’ and ‘Birdman or (the unexpected virtue of ignorance)’, with which he earned his first Academy Award nomination.
However, after two Oscars for Best Actress, the future looks very different. On the one hand it has ‘Cruella 2’, sequel to the spin-off of ‘101 Dalmatians’ directed by Craig Gillespie (‘I, Tonya’), which is supposed to be a new seventies criminal fashion show. For another, He has a new project with Lanthimos and ‘Eddington’the western set during the Covid-19 confinement born from the mind of Ari Aster (‘Beau is afraid’) in which he will share the set with Joaquin Phoenix (‘Joker’), Pedro Pascal (‘The Mandalorian’), Austin Butler (‘Elvis’) and Micheal Ward (‘The Empire of Light’).
