Emma Stone, In Louis Vuitton, Leads Ensemble Cast At The “Kinds Of Kindness” Premiere In Cannes
Provocative and plunging, just like the film
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: Emma Stone attends the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic)
Emma Stone’s third turn at working with film director Yorgos Lanthimos is shaping up to be another Oscar-worthy one—if her tiered, burgundy Louis Vuitton gown at the Kinds of Kindness premiere in Cannes is anything to go by.
The intricate beading and plunging neckline did all the speaking, a complicated and dark-hued prelude to Stone and Lanthimos’ absurdist triptych film. Yes, Kinds Of Kindness—a disturbing three-story movie set in and around New Orleans—is getting a big thumbs up in Cannes this morning. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gave the “unnerving” and “amusing” film four of five stars noting it felt “heavier and longer than I expected.” Variety’s Peter Debruge said it had him “squirming for nearly three hours” with its “triple helping of strange.”
For Stone’s part, she plays the marine biologist wife of a police officer who suspects that she has been replaced by a double after she returns home from being stranded on a desert island for months.
Stone was joined in Cannes by co-stars Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau and Mamoudou Athie. Take a look.
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: Emma Stone attends the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: Emma Stone attends the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by JB Lacroix/FilmMagic)CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: Emma Stone (detail) attends the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: Margaret Qualley, Emma Stone, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer depart the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: (L-R) Hunter Schafer, Margaret Qualley, Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Willem Dafoe depart the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 17: (L-R) Joe Alwyn, Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer attend the “Kinds Of Kindness” Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
The film premiere comes on the heels of Stone winning Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards for her role as Bella Baxter, a woman with the mind of an infant. Stone also took home Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. If history tells us anything, Kinds Of Kindness is clearly just another part of the Stone-Lanthimos tour de force.
