Searchlight Pictures dropped a full-length trailer for Kinds of Kindness Wednesday, and as is to be expected from a Yorgos Lanthimos project at this point, the film looks funny, unsettling, and above all else, strange.
Soundtracked to the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” much like the teaser from earlier this year, the new clip doesn’t give much away for what the movie’s actually about, but it does set the table for the uncomfortable vibes that Lanthimos will likely serve up in his “triptych fable.”
The film will have three distinct storylines: A man without a choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman 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, destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
“Open your eyes, and look clearly at what’s going on around you, we might all be in danger,” Plemons’ character mumbles to Willem Dafoe early in the trailer. At another point, he confides how his partner “asked me to fuck her in my uniform, and then hit me hard.”
“We didn’t, obviously, fuck,” he adds.
Elsewhere, people are fainting, a body is getting dragged, and Emma Stone is doing a strange dance in a parking lot in front of her car. The final shot is a group of dogs taking a joyride with one of them behind the wheel.
Kinds of Kindness marks Lanthimos’ third consecutive film starring Stone, following The Favourite and Poor Things. She was nominated for Academy Awards for her performances in both films, winning Best Actress for the latter. Along with Stone, Plemons and Dafoe, Kinds Of Kindness’ cast includes Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.
In Rolling Stone’s review of the film following its Cannes premiere, critic David Fear called Kinds of Kindness “just as head-scratching, humiliation-friendly and downright unsettling as those early reputation-establishing works. Maybe moreso.”
The movie hits theaters on June 21.
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