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police officer who suspects that she has been replaced by a double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.