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- 'Kinds of Kindness' delivers shock and awe
- When: 'Kinds of Kindness' is in select theaters June 21 and “kind of everywhere” June 28.
- What to know: The film is a “triptych fable” that tells three distinct stories about characters seeking control.
- Director Yorgos Lanthimos is known for his bizarre movies like Poor Things and The Favourite.
- The cast is stacked: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and Mamoudou Athie embody three different roles across the nearly three-hour film.
- “Kinds of Kindness opens with Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),' and its verse, to me, basically previews the plot of the movie without the viewer even knowing it,” entertainment editor Alexis Shaw told me. She’s right.
- Why I’ll be watching: You better believe I’ve already seen it, but I’ll be headed back to the theater to decode any plot points I missed. To quote Alexis, it’s “a puzzle to be figured out.”
- — Kelsey Weekman
- June 19, 2024
6 days ago · Kinds of Kindness: Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Yorgos Stefanakos, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Fadeke Adeola. A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
Kinds of Kindness is a 2024 absurdist black comedy anthology film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay he co-wrote with Efthimis Filippou. The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.
Jun 17, 2024 · Kinds of Kindness features a star-studded cast playing multiple roles in a triptych fable anthology film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Willem Dafoe lead the ensemble in bizarre stories about power struggles, impostors, and resurrection.
Jun 22, 2024 · Find out who is starring alongside Emma Stone in her latest feature film with Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness.
Jun 21, 2024 · Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film delivers three pitch black parables, enlisting an A-list cast topped by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons to get down and dirty in the moral morass.
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.
Jun 18, 2024 · In addition to Stone, Dafoe, Alwyn and Qualley, the film also stars Hong Chau (The Whale), Mamoudou Athie (Elemental), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog).
6 days ago · 'Kinds of Kindness' cast on surrendering to and embracing Yorgos Lanthimos' unique directorial style Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos explores the complexities of human compassion and cruelty in ...
May 30, 2024 · From the film's impressive ensemble cast and intriguing plot, here is everything we know about Kinds of Kindness. Editor's Note: This piece was updated on May 30, 2024.
May 29, 2024 · Kinds of Kindness cast. Emma Stone leads the ensemble of Kinds of Kindness, again her third movie with Lanthimos. In addition to her work with the Poor Things director, Stone is a two-time Oscar-winner best known for La La Land, Cruella, Birdman, Easy A and, more recently, the TV series The Curse.
