Emma Stone comedy ‘Kinds of Kindness’ takes the lead on Cannes jury grid
The Cannes Film Festival got underway on May 14th, and Kinds of Kindness has quickly edged into an early lead on the jury grid. The comedy, which sees Emma Stone team-up with Yorgos Lanthimos, has edged out in front with an average score of 2.4.
This rating is enough to place it ahead of Andrea Arnold’s social-realist film Bird and Emmanuel Parvu’s hard-hitting Romanian drama Three Kilometres to the End of the World, which both sit on a score of 2.3. Last year’s jury grid winner was Fallen Leaves which scored 3.2 after voting concluded.
In the past, the jury have been rather more scathing when it comes to the work of Lanthimos, scoring 2017’s The Killing Of A Sacred Deer 1.9, a rather damning total. This time out, however, Kinds of Kindness has been widely praised and it is Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis that is proving divisive, scoring 2.1.
Lanthimos’ latest film also stars Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, and Jesse Plemons, while Hunter Schafer, Hong Chau and Joe Alwyn make up an ensemble of familiar faces for the Greek director, following his latest acclaimed feature, Poor Things.
The official synopsis for the triptych fable, Kinds of Kindness, states: “A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife’s demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.”
Speaking about the forthcoming film at a Cannes press conference, Emma Stone discussed the social undertones of her collaboration, commenting: “I am a feminist whether there’s activism or not…When it comes to these stories, these are just stories that feel interesting to me as an actor.”
She concluded: “I’m a feminist and like working with Yorgos Lanthimos.”
There are still 15 films remaining on the roster awaiting jury grid votes. The festival is set to conclude on May 25th.
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