Stone has never been better, playing a woman having an unapologetic sexual awakening with transfixing reckless abandon in “Poor Things,” which just won the top prize at Venice.
is plush and baroque, disturbing its audience with a giddy verve. This makes for an often disconcertingly pleasurable spectacle, the most crowd-pleasing of Lanthimos’ career.
Emma Stone plays Bella Baxter, whose body has been repurposed after her death by suicide. She had been pregnant at the time of her death, leading an eccentric scientist named Godwin Baxter to replace her brain with that of her unborn baby, as an experiment. Bella therefore, when first we meet her, has the morphology of a woman but the faltering language, naivety and frankness of an infant.
depicts her just like a rag doll, in a series of delightfully frou-frou frocks with puffed sleeves a-go-go, in endless declensions of yellow.goes all out in the design stakes, producing theatrical sets that flaunt their unreality. Turbid skies over London in the film’s beginning are obviously painted; Lisbon is a fever-dream of Technicolor alleyways and looming façades; Alexandria seems perched on a clifftop at the end of the world, a cornucopia of steps and tilting turrets.
Sex, which Bella calls “jumping furiously” is depicted with raucous abandon at this juncture of the film: Duncan, though he may be a conniving bastard, an idiot and a preening fop, is a gifted cocksman, and we know by now that Bella picks things up quickly. It takes a fairly serious command of tone to make a film at once so otherworldly, funny, and—well—horny, and Lanthimos and a remarkably game Stone are to be commended for their lack of shyness in that regard.
As the pair continue their adventure together, meeting various eccentrics along the way , Bella grows tired of Duncan, and takes to prostituting herself, which she sees as educational and rewarding. As she progresses through the world, she learns about injustice and the cruelty of man: a necessary moral dimension but, one senses, one that doesn’t quite interest Lanthimos as much as putting on a show.
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