Following their latest Oscar-winning collaboration, Emma Stone and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos are back with a new film that shouldn’t be missed.
The actress – who won the Oscar for Best Actress. appears alongside Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chau and Mamoudou Athie in the first teaser for kinds of kindness.
“This is it… the moment of truth,” Stone, 35, says at the start of the 46-second clip as she leaves a parking lot in a purple Dodge Challenger.
No other dialogue is given until the end of the teaser, when the car pulls into a motel lot. “Isn’t it wonderful?” she asks.
The rest of the promo is filled with glimpses of scenes from Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos are back together for the first teaser of Kinds of Kindness
After living it up in a Dodge Challenger, a shot of Stone shows her standing by the car and taking action in a rust-colored pantsuit
Another shot shows the 35-year-old Academy Award winner sitting under mood lighting in a short off-the-shoulder dress
One shot of Stone shows her standing by the car and pausing an action in a rust-colored pantsuit.
A woman in a wheelchair sits nearby, indicating a recent escape (or kidnapping) from a hospital.
Another shot shows the Academy Award winner sitting under ambient lighting in a short off-the-shoulder dress.
She also appears to be locking lips with someone who appears to be 68-year-old Dafoe, in an extreme close-up.
Dafoe operates a range of emotions in the clips, from tortured and pensive to his signature maniacal laughter.
Qualley, 29, and Plemons, 35, channel an eccentric rich couple as she slaps him in one scene.
The teaser also shows a mustachioed Plemons behind the wheel of another car before pushing someone out of a wheelchair in another hospital parking lot.
Qualley appears in another black and white shot, showing off some of her own moves.
Schafer, 25, raises her hands as if trying to communicate with an alien entity.
Willem Dafoe serves a range of emotions in the clips, from tortured and pensive to his signature maniacal laugh
Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons channel an eccentric rich couple as she punches him in one scene
The teaser also shows a mustachioed Plemons, 35, behind the wheel of another car before pushing someone out of a wheelchair in another hospital parking lot
In a second shot, Hong Chau ran her tongue over the stomach of a half-naked woman
Hunter Schafer raises her hands as if trying to communicate with an alien entity
Alwyn, 33, clenches his hands as he appears to have a nervous breakdown in a parking lot.
In a second shot, 44-year-old Chau ran her tongue over the stomach of a half-naked woman.
The rest of the teaser is filled with curious images, such as a boat speeding across a beautiful ocean vista, a body being dragged down a hallway, and a dog drinking from a straw on a beach.
The film is described as a ‘triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a police officer alarmed because his wife, missing at sea, has returned and appears to be a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific person with a special ability, who is destined to become a miraculous spiritual leader,” said Variety.
Stone also appears to lock lips with someone who appears to be 68-year-old Dafoe, in an extreme close-up
Qualley, 29, appears in another black and white photo, showing off some of her own moves
Joe Alwyn clenches his hands as he appears to be having a nervous breakdown in a parking lot
Mamoudou Athie also stars in the film, which opens in select theaters on June 21
Stone recently won her second Oscar for Best Actress after working with 50-year-old Lanthimos on Poor Things, which also earned him a nomination for Best Director.
Stone and Mark Ruffalo were both nominated for their roles in Poor Things
Stone recently won her second Oscar for Best Actress after working with 50-year-old Lanthimos on Poor Things, which also earned him a nomination for Best Director.
The pair previously worked together on 2018’s The Favorite, for which they were also nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Director respectively.
Stone and Lanthimos are also in talks to collaborate for a fourth time on a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Kinds of Kindness premieres in select theaters on June 21.