Searchlight Pictures have released the first teaser trailer for Kinds of Kindness, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, and produced by Element Pictures.
Kinds of Kindness, previously named AND, is the next film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos following the awards success of Poor Things. This will mark Lanthimos’ fifth collaboration with Irish production company Element Pictures, and his fourth with actor Emma Stone. The screenplay was co-written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer), and developed by Element Pictures and Film4.
The film is described as 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.”
Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe will produce the film for Element Pictures alongside Kasia Malipan and Lanthimos. Ollie Madden and Daniel Battsek are executive producing for co-financier Film4.
The film's cast consists of Poor Things stars Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe, The Favourite actor Joe Alwyn, as well as Jesse Plemons (Killers of the Flower Moon), Hong Chau (The Whale), and Hunter Schafer (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes).
Kinds of Kindness was filmed in New Orleans in late 2022, and will release in Irish cinemas on June 28th, 2024.
