Poor Things: Soon to be a major film

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Zacharek, Stephanie (September 1, 2023). "Venice Review: Emma Stone Works Twisted Fairytale Magic in Poor Things". Time . Retrieved September 6, 2023. Poor Things premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2023, where it won the Golden Lion, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 8, 2023, and in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2024, by Searchlight Pictures.

A teaser trailer was released in May 2023, and a full length trailer in June 2023. Both paint a very clear picture of the Victorian-era setting and the fabulously quirky style fans have come to expect from Yorgos Lanthimos. The 28th Busan International Film Festival: Selection List". Busan International Film Festival. September 5, 2023 . Retrieved September 11, 2023. 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. Filming for the movie took place in Origo Studios in Hungary and on location in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021. Why is ‘Poor Things’ rated R?

And what was it like to portray Bella in her almost-feral “early” stage?

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. Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year. [1] [2] Willem Dafoe’s ‘Poor Things’ Makeup Took Six Hours Each Day to Get On: I’d Show Up at 3 A.M., ‘Meditating and Trying to Deal With Standing Still’ Coe, Jonathan (8 October 1992). "Gray's Elegy". London Review of Books. Vol.14, no.19. ISSN 0260-9592. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 October 2023. So, as a fan of both Gray and the book, let me explain what you’re seeing here. In fact, the official logline is not a bad place to start:

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it "an insanely enjoyable fairy tale", adding that Stone "gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about". [40] Variety 's Guy Lodge also believed that the film "rests on a single astonishing performance by Stone". [41] However, she elopes with Duncan Wedderburn, travelling about the Continent and living in sin with him. Pritchard, Tiffany (November 22, 2021). "NEWS Robbie Ryan wins Golden Frog, tributes paid to Halyna Hutchins at Camerimage". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on November 23, 2021 . Retrieved February 27, 2022.

Where can I watch Poor Things?

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 March, Cristie. "Bella and the Beast (and a Few Dragons, Too): Alasdair Gray and the Social Resistance of the Grotesque." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43.4 (2002): 323-346.