Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' 2023 film "Poor Things" has received a lot of critical acclaim, but it's also been the subject of a fair amount of backlash. The Golden Lion winner tells the story of Bella, a woman who dies only to be revived and have her brain replaced with that of an infant by a twisted scientist, in turn setting her on a journey of self-discovery (read: sexual exploration). Due to this complicated subject matter, "Poor Things" has been roped into a larger discourse about sex scenes in cinema.
More reactionary critics have been quick to slam the film's off-beat comedy and have taken serious issue with its subject matter. Other critics have slammed the film for being pedophilic since Bella is technically at the mental age of a child when she begins having sex. But one person who didn't criticize Lanthimos for including sex scenes in the movie was Emma Stone,...
More reactionary critics have been quick to slam the film's off-beat comedy and have taken serious issue with its subject matter. Other critics have slammed the film for being pedophilic since Bella is technically at the mental age of a child when she begins having sex. But one person who didn't criticize Lanthimos for including sex scenes in the movie was Emma Stone,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Shae Sennett
- Slash Film
In a very real sense, you had us at “Yorgos Lanthimos and Tony McNamara”. 2018’s The Favourite showed how perfectly the former’s eye for the visually abstract blends with the latter’s absurdist take on the period drama. Throw in Emma Stone (so good at delivering McNamara’s one-liners in The Favourite and Cruella) as an oddball and macabre promethean creation, Willem Dafoe as the eccentric surgeon that stitched her together and Mark Ruffalo as a deliciously moustache twirling cad and, well, you’re in, aren’t you?
Stone is on career-best form as Bella in this adaption of Alastair Grey’s 1992 novel. She begins the film with the mind of a bratty child, toddling around, spitting her food out and speaking in broken lines, and ends it as an articulate and sophisticated (if deeply deeply weird) young woman, rattling off idealistic social commentary in a tone familiar to...
Stone is on career-best form as Bella in this adaption of Alastair Grey’s 1992 novel. She begins the film with the mind of a bratty child, toddling around, spitting her food out and speaking in broken lines, and ends it as an articulate and sophisticated (if deeply deeply weird) young woman, rattling off idealistic social commentary in a tone familiar to...
- 10/16/2023
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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