Emma Stone’s next movie with Yorgos Lanthimos is actually coming out pretty soon
The movie, Kinds Of Kindness, also stars Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, and Hong Chau
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Emma Stone and her Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos quickly identified each other as a couple of funky peas in a funky pod when they first worked together on 2018’s The Favourite, with their friendship being a fun talking point around Poor Things during Oscar season—especially since it culminated in Stone winning a second Best Actress trophy (right after she broke her dress during “I’m Just Ken”). The two have made it clear that they’d like to keep working together and, oh hey, what’s this? Apparently they have a new movie coming out in June. Like, this June. The month that’s in a couple of months.
The movie is called Kinds Of Kindness, and all we really know about it is that it’s an anthology film, that it used to be called And (a bad name, even if it’s funny), and that it’s the movie Stone and Lanthimos were working on when she was called on to slap co-star Willem Dafoe (another Poor Things veteran) 20 times. Speaking of, we actually also know a bunch of famous people who are in it, with Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer all joining Stone and Dafoe.
We can also surmise that the movie is about different kinds of kindness and/or the word “and,” since Lanthimos’ movies tend to have pretty straightforward titles—The Lobster is about a lobster, The Favourite is about a favourite (in the fancy European sense), Poor Things is about poor things. He’s not just, you know, throwing words together that sound good.
But, again, the good news is that we don’t have to wait long to find out what it’s about, because Kinds Of Kindness opens in theaters on June 21, 2024.
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> The movie is called Kinds Of Kindness, and all we really know about it is….It took me about 5 seconds to find out it’s set in the contemporary U.S. (filmed in New Orleans) and that each of the principal actors plays three different roles, but I’m not a professional pop-culture writer.> Poor Things is about poor things. He’s not just, you know, throwing words together that sound good.Neither was Alasdair Gray, who wrote the novel.
Hard to tell whether this article is being petulant about Lanthimos (who mostly deserves it) or just snotty in a generalized, can’t-be-bothered way. But it would not have been hard to do some more actual reporting. Oh well.
“Snotty in a generalized kind of way” basically sums up the majority of the writing here at the AVClub these days — regardless of whether or not any actual snark is actually warranted. We’re all apparently way too cool for anything and liking stuff is for losers. Wait… didn’t we do this already in the 90’s ?!?
Big assumption that most of the people on staff would remember the 90s.
It’s like they’re all trying to copy Sean O’Neill’s brand of snark but forgetting that his humour was also often pretty absurdist, and he also wrote straight news stories about films or tv that really excited or interested him.
Now whenever I read an AV Club news story I hear it as if it’s an MTV VJ from the 90’s saying it out loud, which makes it even more embarrassing than it already was. I really should stop coming here I guess, but there are occasional bits of news that I find interesting that I haven’t found being covered elsewhere.
Why exactly does he deserve petulance?
Why exactly does he deserve petulance?For me, at least, the cynicism in his films comes across as adolescent posturing when you put him next to people like Bunuel or Kubrick, both of whom seem like pretty clear reference points for him. He’s not terrible, but my visceral reaction is always “yeah, whatever man.”
“…that’s all we know about it [because we couldn’t be arsed to do any actual work to write this].” There. Fixed it.
The Lobster is not about a lobster. It’s about a man who chooses to become a lobster in a year if he doesn’t find a mate. To be fair, that’s because lobsters are not very good at remembering lines, so Yorgos had to work with humans. And (great title!), Poor Things is based on a book called…Poor Things! That Yorgos, just randomly coming up with literal titles all over the place. Oh, no, wait, except for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which is metaphorical and referencing Greek myth. There’s no actual deer, which, again, to be fair, is because deer just can’t act so again, humans. So was Sam Barsanti actually paid to write this…whatever it is?
Yeah, but what about Dogtooth?!? Huh, sure… there was something [spoiler ahead] about not being allowed to leave the compound until your dogtooth fell out, but that was clearly just coincidence, right?
Alps was not a travelogue, and Dogtooth wasn’t about veterinary dentistry.
Sam was paid to write it, yeah, indeed I think he’s the last of the writers who worked for the site when everyone was told they had to either relocate or they’d lose their jobs, and when that happened many other contributors refused to work for the site any more even though it cost them a great deal of money. So as well as “paid writer” I can also think of other words to describe him, but shan’t as I’m trying to cut down on my swearing.
Sam Barsanti is the kind of person that you wish would join the mirror-world MAGA opinion/entertainment complex because it’s so deeply embarrassing that someone so click-addicted and obnoxious could be politically aligned with you.
big news for middlebrow pseuds!