• 4 months ago
Join members of the cast and crew of Kinds of Kindness for a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming film. Kinds of Kindness stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.

Kinds of Kindness is a 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.

Kinds of Kindness, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, opens in select theaters on June 21, 2024.
Transcript
00:00You must put on a few pounds. I told you that last time.
00:03But I have, you mean.
00:04Skinny men are the most ridiculous thing there is.
00:09Kinds of Kindness.
00:10It's something different in terms of form to what we have done before.
00:14This is it. The moment of truth.
00:16Thought that it would be interesting to try and make a film with three different stories.
00:22It's like a, you know, a short story collection.
00:28It's a little dreamlike.
00:29It sort of unfolds inside of you as time goes on.
00:32It's three stories which are sort of connected but not in a conventional way.
00:37His idea was that he would have cast members playing a different character in each story.
00:45There's questions about identity, faith.
00:47How's the foot?
00:48It's all about the human condition.
00:52The common thread that I found is this balance between
00:55wanting to be loved and accepted and controlled.
00:59No.
01:00And wanting to be free.
01:05It feels like an alternate universe.
01:06Honestly, the rules of the world just seems a bit off.
01:10There's something funny about these dynamics and circumstances.
01:15You're laughing and it's upsetting and you kind of don't really know what you're feeling.
01:18You know, it's like that, like, am I allowed to laugh kind of feeling.
01:22Sweet dreams are made of the ins and outs.
01:26Omi was right.
01:27Susan is not contaminated.
01:30Even though his films have such traumatic things,
01:33there's a certain sense of humor running throughout all of it.
01:38It's stretched from reality in this unsettling, funny, often dark way.
01:45Should we all go upstairs to the bedroom?
01:47She asked me to fuck her in my uniform.
01:51There's room for you to think about those things and apply your own logic to them.
01:56We didn't, obviously.
01:57Ow!
01:59That makes it, you know, more complex and more engaging.
02:03Nothing's spelled out for you and it makes you think and the best art does that.
02:07The story is very Yorgos, very specific world.
02:17He has a gift for tricking you into seeing things that you can't normally see.
02:21There's a magic to that.
02:23This dog is like my family.
02:26I'm not sure if you can relate.
02:27Ah!

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