After their latest Oscar-winning collab, Emma Stone and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another must-see film.
The actress – who scooped the Best Actress Academy Award. 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, narrates the opening of the 46-second clip as she peels out of 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 set to 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 peeling out in a Dodge Challenger, one shot of Stone shows her standing near the car and busting a move in rust-colored pantsuit
Another shot shows the Academy Award winner, 35, sitting under moody lighting in a short off-the-shoulder dress
One shot of Stone shows her standing near the car and busting a move in rust-colored pantsuit.
A wheelchair-ridden woman sits nearby, suggesting a recent escape (or kidnapping) from a hospital.
Another shot shows the Academy Award winner sitting under moody lighting in a short off-the-shoulder dress.
She also appears to lock lips with someone who appears to be Dafoe, 68, in an extreme closeup.
Dafoe serves a range of emotions in the clips from tortured and pensive to his signature maniacal laughter.
Qualley, 29, and Plemons, 35, channel an eccentrically wealthy 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 structure.
Qualley appears in another black-and-white shot, showing off some of her own moves.
Schafer, 25, raises her hands in the air as if attempting to communicate with an otherworldly entity.
Willem Dafoe serves a range of emotions in the clips from tortured and pensive to his signature maniacal laughter
Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons channel an eccentrically wealthy couple as she slaps 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 structure
Hong Chau drags her tongue across a half-naked woman’s stomach in another shot
Hunter Schafer raises her hands in the air as if attempting to communicate with an otherworldly entity
Alwyn, 33, clutches his hands together while appearing to have a mental breakdown in a parking lot.
Chau, 44, drags her tongue across a half-naked woman’s stomach in another shot.
The rest of the teaser is filled with curious images like a boat speeding across a beautiful ocean view, a body being dragged across a hallway, and a dog drinking from a straw on a beach.
The movie is described as ‘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,’ according to Variety.
Stone also appears to lock lips with someone who appears to be Dafoe, 68, in an extreme closeup
Qualley, 29, appears in another black-and-white shot, showing off some of her own moves
Joe Alwyn clutches his hands together while appearing to have a mental breakdown in a parking lot
Mamoudou Athie also stars in the movie, which premieres June 21 in select theaters
Stone recently won her second Oscar for Best Actress after working with Lanthimos, 50, 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 Lanthimos, 50, on Poor Things, which also earned him a nomination for Best Director.
The pair previously worked together on 2018’s The Favourite, 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 a fourth time for a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Kinds of Kindness premieres June 21 in select theaters.