Poor Things: Soon to be a major film

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There are variations, I guess, but in this film, there's a general tendency to try to control [Bella]—even if it's done in a caring or subtle way, in the way that a parent might or that [Dafoe's character] Baxter does, or just being infatuated in the way that Ramy is. You know, being a nice man deep down, but still having the characteristics of a man of that era." Stone also asserted that "the more agency Bella gets, the more she learns and grows, the more it drives these men insane. The more she has an opinion and her own wants and needs and all of that, it makes them crazy; they want her to stay this sort of pure thing." [21] Filming FESTIVALS: CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival 2023 Announces Lineup". FilmNewEurope. August 17, 2023 . Retrieved September 4, 2023.

Aerts, Ruben (September 21, 2023). "Film Fest Gent verwelkomt 25 unieke kortfilms, Fien Troch en 'Poor things' ". De Standaard (in Dutch) . Retrieved October 9, 2023. Smith, Jeremy (June 12, 2023). "Poor Things Author Was A Fan Of Yorgos Lanthimos From The Start". /Film . Retrieved November 5, 2023. COLLATERAL AWARDS OF THE 80TH VENICE FILM FESTIVAL". La Biennale di Venezia. September 8, 2023 . Retrieved September 9, 2023. Presented as the memoir of a Scottish doctor, Archibald McCandless, it describes his life and that of a colleague -- the brilliant Godwin Baxter. Sacal, Andrea (November 23, 2023). "Emma Stone Is Scientifically Resurrected In 'POOR THINGS' Trailer". HypeBeast . Retrieved November 24, 2023.

Rooney, David (September 1, 2023). " 'Poor Things' Review: Emma Stone Is Stupendous as a Reanimated Woman Reinventing Herself in Yorgos Lanthimos' Fantastical Odyssey". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 1, 2023. The novel is written from the perspective of many unreliable and contradictory narrators, which makes for an extremely interesting springboard for the film adaptation. When will Poor Things be released? Poor Things review: Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo lead a demented comedy of self-creation and degradation". W. September 3, 2023 . Retrieved September 10, 2023. Barber, Nicholas. "Poor Things review: Emma Stone is 'perfectly cast' in this truly bizarre female Frankenstein story". BBC.com . Retrieved September 3, 2023.a b Bradshaw, Peter (September 1, 2023). "Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos's virtuoso comic epic". The Guardian . Retrieved September 3, 2023. Even though Bella has obviously been through trauma in her life, it just isn't there for her now. She was the most joyous character in the world to play, because she has no shame about anything. She's new, you know? I've never had to build a character before that didn't have things that had happened to them or had been put on them by society throughout their lives. It was an extremely freeing experience to be her. [18] The film explores themes of sexuality, feminism and human connection, through the lens of Bella who is relearning everything for the first time. Emma Stone said of the film “ the idea that you could start anew as a woman, as this body that’s already formed, and see everything for the first time and try to understand the nature of sexuality, or power, or money or choice, the ability to make choices and live by your own rules and not society’s - I thought that was a really fascinating world to go into”. Is ‘Poor Things’ based on a true story? White, James (May 22, 2021). "Yorgos Lanthimos And Emma Stone Reportedly Reuniting For Frankenstein-Style Tale Poor Things". Empire Online. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021 . Retrieved May 22, 2021. The full-grown woman with the infant's mind, named Bella (later taking the name Victoria) is a remarkable creature.

Lanthimos draws on Lynch’s The Elephant Man and Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, and Emma Stone’s gloriously artless heroine has something of Herzog’s Kaspar Hauser or Emily Watson’s Bess in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. Her faintly jerky head movements and unselfconscious gait – awkward and yet somehow elegant at the same time – is also rather like Ray Bolger’s Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. Poor Things had its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2023, [2] [25] and was also screened at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, the Busan International Film Festival, and the Sitges Film Festival. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] The film is scheduled to have a limited theatrical release by Searchlight Pictures in the United States on December 8, 2023, followed by a wide release on December 22, 2023. [31] [32] It will be released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on January 12, 2024. [33] It was previously scheduled to be released on September 8, 2023, [34] [4] but was delayed to its December date due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. [31] Reception Critical response Emma Stone received praise for her performance [35] Stephanie Zacharek of Time wrote that Poor Things is "Lanthimos' finest movie so far, a strange, gorgeous-looking picture that extends generosity both to its characters and the audience". She found Stone's performance "wonderful—vital, exploratory, almost lunar in its perfect oddness." [38] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a "virtuoso comic epic" and added that Stone had given a "hilarious, beyond-next-level performance". [39]

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However, she elopes with Duncan Wedderburn, travelling about the Continent and living in sin with him. The book, however, appends a letter, to be unsealed and read only in 1974 (sixty years after she wrote it) by Victoria "Bella" McCandless, in which she comments on McCandless' story and sets the record straight (or, if you wish, skews it further).