The strike also accounts for why “Poor Things,” originally scheduled for a Sept. Because of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the actors opted to skip Venice and aren’t promoting the film, although Stone is reportedly in attendance at the Telluride Film Festival, where the movie will make its North American bow Saturday night. Bella is also an entrancing addition to Stone and Lanthimos’ expanding gallery of antiheroines the two recently made a short film, “Bleat” (expect goats), that’s making the festival rounds, and they have another feature collaboration, titled “And,” in the works.įor now, moviegoers with an appetite for Lanthimos’ brand of cinematic mischief can look forward to “Poor Things,” a splendidly deranged science-fiction-horror-comedy-fantasia that just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Raised in a temporally dissonant, technologically fanciful Victorian-steampunk vision of London, she is the unsubtly named Godwin’s most sublime creation. Bella herself is a kind of experiment, as you soon gather from her unsteady gait, childlike speech patterns and gleefully anarchic spirit. Stone mercifully doesn’t abuse any bunnies in “Poor Things.” But her character, a dark-haired, gimlet-eyed oddity named Bella Baxter, does grow up in the care of a scientist-surgeon, Godwin (Willem Dafoe), who specializes in bizarre forms of animal experimentation. “The Favourite” has racing ducks, slaughtered pigeons and 17 royal rabbits, one of which Emma Stone nearly crushes underfoot. So does “The Lobster,” in which lonely singles are destined to be transformed into animals. “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” both feature doomed pets. Human and animal fates tend to be disturbingly bound together in Lanthimos’ movies, the titles of which could populate an absurdist art-house menagerie. This Hobbesian pronouncement arrives deep into Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” the latest work from a filmmaker with a career-long interest in cruelty and beasts. “We are all cruel beasts - born that way, die that way.”
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