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Dec 5, 2023 · Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), who until this moment could do no wrong, “Poor Things” is a fractured Frankenstein-like tale. A pregnant woman...
Poor Things itself is an equally – and brilliantly – surprising hybrid: a feminist coming-of-age story, monster movie and bawdy, foul-mouthed sex romp that the Greek alchemist has somehow forged into a masterpiece.
Dec 18, 2023 · Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle answers questions about Oscar-buzzy “Poor Things,” the greatest foreign film actors, Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin.
Dec 21, 2023 · Poor Things, a surreal mix of science-fiction and pornographic fairy tale by the loopy Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, may not be the worst commercially intended movie ever...
Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.
Story by Stacey Yvonne. • 6mo • 5 min read. It’s easy to question the legitimacy of Yorgos Lanthimos ’s Poor Things in the first few minutes. Is it the story of a mad disfigured scientist...
Dec 26, 2023 · The themes and meaning of Poor Things. Questioning the way things are. Bella’s situation means she’s experiencing the world for the first time but as an adult. Meaning she can combine child-like curiosity with a grown-up’s perception and processing to ask some very complex questions about the world.
Dec 8, 2023 · Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn.
Emma Stone goes for bawdy, boundary-pushing broke in “Poor Things,” a funny, unsettling, ugly, fantastically constructed cabinet of cinematic wonders. Adapted from Alasdair Gray’s novel by ...
Dec 21, 2023 · “Poor Things” is a story of exploration and defiant joie de vivre as a rejection of the circumstances and constrictions of the world; it is an experiment not in playing God, but rather in laissez-faire morality.
