This film is the most original and disconcerting film: after the Oscar, Emma Stone and the retrospective of the Pauvres Créatures director – Actus Ciné.

Hollywood, collaboration of the old font des Miracles. Thoughts of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and John Williams or Kristen Dunst and Sofia Coppola for an encore. With Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone has found a man with an outstanding degree of madness. La preuve en est avec Kindness, an ensemble of four triumphant projects, which after my forays into Pauvres Creatures – which became the star of the second Oscar.

This film, presented as a triptych, opened the viewer’s eyes to the possibilities of “encore plus loin”. The three stories, all the fun of the female actors, are lies of common themes: the gift of happiness and embarrassment. In the world of Yorgos Lanthimos, goodness can be synonymous with health.

The first segment focuses on the boss (Willem Dafoe), who controls the lives of his employees. The two are intrigued by the retrospectives of a story about a mysterious disparity. Finally, the three of them are immersed in the ranks of a social sect of inquisitive pratiques.

Greek cinema reunites for this game of carnage, elegant casting and everyone ready to react to its excesses with cool: Jesse Plemons (Killer of the Flower Moon, Civil War), Willem DafoeMargaret Qualley (Maid), Hong Chau (Kit), Mamoudou Athie (Elementer), Joe Alwyn (Favorite) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) – unique scene time.

Emma Stone’s View by Yorgos Lanthimos

Parmi is always beautiful, the embodiment of Emma Stone, tour after tour, a young inconnue sophistiquée, a dissatisfied young woman and a student of the secret. For AlloCiné, Kinds of Kindness explains why the actress became a recent partner:

“If she is unique and an incredible actress, we should all be happy. I thought that during this time a certain trust had already arisen between us. I believe that I can realize my own ideas. And he said that he was between nannies, I thought.“

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Or they say: “She can be free and instinctive, but she knows that everything she does is understandable and useful in cooperation with the rest of the world. I thought that we admit all two things of the joy of a sure freedom and of all, plus that we know what we are looking for, or that we do not know her, but we are sometimes the most free explorer, and we ‘Avoid using ideas from other types of behavior“

“It was a time when I worked with writers or actors who worked on the repetitions of many actors. On the other hand, some actors work together, and this is the most important use of such cooperation. I want you to be delighted with partners who can afford everything in terms of basic care, plus direct“

Face with additional reactions

Yorgos Lanthimos’s films, “Dogs in Lobster” and “Misa in Death Sacred”, they provoke a strong reaction from the public. A reaction that will lead you to pass by, to reject. But what was the realization of these responses?

“I like reactions that are different from each other. Between experiences and antecedents, I like to make the perceptions different. I know that I choose things that I never thought could be part of the film, and that could be honest participants in the film, or maybe someone chose something that I don’t think is a good party in the film, but most of all it means absolution and foresight. That’s all that’s interesting about the fair of films and parties with different people.“

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone in a movie, what’s that?

Proposals collected by Thomas Derosch in Cannes in May 2024.

Kinds of Kindness is now showing in theaters.