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Oscar-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos brings his signature sense of weirdness to the traditional American marriage in the 1st trailer for Kinds Of Kindness.
The brief but intriguing trailer hints at 3 different short stories chronicling “kindness” in an absurdist version of America. Amidst various surreal portraits of domestic life, we get a brief glimpse of stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons as a loveless domestic couple, an Office Space-esque depiction of a cramped industrial workplace, horror-tinged black-and-white vignettes, a police chase, Willem Dafoe intensely staring at something, and a very befuddled Plemons graphically explaining an affair.
Kinds Of Kindness (2024) – source: Searchlight Pictures
Did that all make you confused? That makes two of us.
Director Lanthimos has built up a brand on delightfully strange analogues of the human experience. He has defined this film as a “triptych fable”, which allows us to surmise that the film will be comprised of 3 different but connected stories.
Following more overtly fantastical works like Poor Things, the return to a more realistic setting feels deliberate. Lanthimos’ previous use of extravagant locales (The Favorite, Poor Things) has long been used to highlight the emptiness of the human experience. By beginning with a more stripped-down palette (and a fantastic ensemble cast), one can only imagine with horrifically existential truths Lanthimos will shine a light on this time around.
Kinds Of Kindness will be released in UK cinemas on June 28, 2024, with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau & Willem Dafoe leading the ensemble cast.
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