Following their latest Oscar-winning collaboration, Emma Stone and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another must-see film.
The actress, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She appears alongside Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chau and Mamoudou Athie in the first puzzle for kind types.
“This is… the moment of truth,” Stone, 35, narrates the beginning of the 46-second clip as he pulls out of a parking lot in a purple Dodge Challenger.
No further dialogue is given until the end of the teaser, when the car pulls into a motel parking lot. ‘Is not it wonderful?’ she asks.
The rest of the promo is filled with glimpses of scenes set to Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’.
Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos reunite for the first preview of Kinds of Kindness
After leaving in a Dodge Challenger, a shot of Stone shows her standing near the car and making a move in a rust-colored pantsuit.
Another shot shows the Academy Award winner, 35, sitting under low lighting in a short, off-the-shoulder dress.
One shot of Stone shows her standing near the car and making a move in a rust-colored pantsuit.
A woman in a wheelchair sits nearby, suggesting a recent escape (or kidnapping) from a hospital.
Another shot shows the Academy Award winner sitting under low lighting in a short, off-the-shoulder dress.
He also appears to kiss someone who appears to be Dafoe, 68, in extreme close-up.
Dafoe displays a range of emotions in the clips, from tortured and pensive to his trademark maniacal laugh.
Qualley, 29, and Plemons, 35, channel an eccentrically 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 his own moves.
Schafer, 25, raises his hands in the air as if trying to communicate with an otherworldly entity.
Willem Dafoe displays a range of emotions in the clips, from tortured and pensive to his trademark maniacal laugh.
Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons channel an eccentrically rich couple as she slaps him in one scene.
The teaser also shows Plemons, 35, with a mustache, behind the wheel of another car before pushing someone out of a wheelchair in another hospital parking lot.
Hong Chau drags his tongue across a half-naked woman’s stomach in another shot
Hunter Schafer raises his hands in the air as if trying to communicate with an otherworldly entity.
Alwyn, 33, clasps his hands as he appears to have a mental breakdown in a parking lot.
Chau, 44, runs his tongue along the stomach of a half-naked woman in another shot.
The rest of the teaser is full of curious images, such as a boat speeding through a beautiful view of the ocean, a body dragged down a hallway, and a dog drinking through a straw on the beach.
The film is described as a ‘triptych fable, which follows a choiceless man who attempts to take control of his own life; a police officer alarmed because his wife, missing at sea, has returned and looks like 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,’ according to Variety.
Stone also appears to make out with someone who appears to be Dafoe, 68, in extreme close-up.
Qualley, 29, appears in another black-and-white shot, showing off some of his own moves.
Joe Alwyn clasps his hands as he appears to have a mental breakdown in a parking lot
Mamoudou Athie also stars in the film, which opens June 21 in select theaters.
Stone recently won her second Best Actress Oscar after working with Lanthimos, 50, on Poor Things, which also earned her a Best Director nomination.
Stone and Mark Ruffalo were nominated for their roles in Poor Things.
Stone recently won her second Best Actress Oscar after working with Lanthimos, 50, on Poor Things, which also earned her a Best Director nomination.
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 have also been in talks to team up for a fourth time for a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Kinds of Kindness opens June 21 in select theaters.