Kinds of Kindness – Emma Stone’s film recently premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival – caused many audiences to leave midway because the content was too scary.

Cinema enthusiasts are paying attention to Cannes – the world’s largest film festival held annually in France – to watch the latest hit works introduced. On May 18 (Vietnam time), the premiere of Kinds of Kindness – the next project of Oscar winner Emma Stone – was officially held and was the highlight of the event, gathering a cast of famous Hollywood stars. Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau or Joe Alwyn.

According to Variety, after ending, the series received more than 4 minutes of applause from the festival audience. However, this is also considered the most shocking work at Cannes 2024. The screenplay is 3 separate stories that explore many thorny topics such as sex cults, cannibalism… Therefore, , many guests decided to leave the theater after the end of the movie’s second story because the content was too scary. After the screening, director Yorgos Lanthimos also left after a round of applause without interacting with the audience.

The film has many sexual and violent scenes that shocked the audience. Among them, one of the most discussed scenes is when Hong Chau licked the sweat from her co-star’s body in the story about a sex cult mentioned in the work. Emma Stone’s acting was also highly appreciated by many critics. The 2024 Oscar gold statue recipient impressed with a breakdancing scene in the movie.

Kinds of Kindness has many violent and sexual segments and is considered very difficult to watch for mass audiences.

However, Kinds of Kindness received a lot of praise from critics, currently achieving a fresh score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Deadline newspaper rated this as a difficult to watch, complex but excellent work. Meanwhile, Collider site calls this Yorgos Lanthimos’s boldest film project to date.

Yorgos Lanthimos is a famous director of Greek cinema. He is known for his cinematic works that are considered to have unique and bold language. Last year, the director attracted attention with the film Poor Things – helping Emma Stone win the female lead award at the 2024 Oscar