Poor Things: Soon to be a major film

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Those who, like me, are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not, ought to fall on Poor Things with delight, and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance. Though demure to the point of restraint, it is at least as witty as 1982 Janine, and even more intellectually appealing." - Philip Hensher, The Spectator The full-grown woman with the infant's mind, named Bella (later taking the name Victoria) is a remarkable creature. Pearce, Leonard (28 April 2023). "First Images from Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things, Set for September Release". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023 . Retrieved 28 April 2023. He manages here to be incredibly funny and deathly earnest, and to present a book that is, from beginning to end, entertaining.

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. Poor Things involves a woman, Bella,being given a brain transplant after drowning herself. The brain comes from her unborn child, and the operation conducted by her father turns her into a sort of Frankenstein’s monster. New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. August 8, 2023 . Retrieved August 9, 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] Poor Things will have its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where Lanthimos will return to compete after winning the Grand Jury Prize for The Favourite in 2018. The festival is running from August 30 - September 9, 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. Zacharek, Stephanie (September 1, 2023). "Venice Review: Emma Stone Works Twisted Fairytale Magic in Poor Things". Time . Retrieved September 6, 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.

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.The 28th Busan International Film Festival: Selection List". Busan International Film Festival. September 5, 2023 . Retrieved September 11, 2023. Mr. Gray contrasts the political and moral bleakness of contemporary Britain with the civic energy that characterized the best of Victorian values, now lost. He underlines the harm done to Scotland. Poor Things is a political book. It is also witty and delightfully written, if at times two-dimensional. Attention to Victorian Glasgow with its civic fountains, domestic interiors and medical schools gives the book texture. It is the characters, and strangely enough its phantasmagoria, that give it life." - Geoff Ryman, The New York Times Book Review

Willem Dafoe entered negotiations to join the cast in March 2021. [9] By April, Ramy Youssef was in talks to join. [10] Dafoe and Youssef were confirmed to join in May, with Mark Ruffalo and Jerrod Carmichael also added to the cast in May. [11] [12] In September, Christopher Abbott was cast. [13] In November, Margaret Qualley and Suzy Bemba were cast, [14] with Kathryn Hunter revealing she had a role in the film as well. [15] Peroni 0.0% Audience Award 2023 goes to Poor Things". November 21, 2023 . Retrieved November 21, 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. Sacal, Andrea (November 23, 2023). "Emma Stone Is Scientifically Resurrected In 'POOR THINGS' Trailer". HypeBeast . Retrieved November 24, 2023.

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Yorgos Lanthimos and Stone on the set of Poor Things. Photo: Atsushi Nishijima. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures The film’s take on female sexuality and agency feels so fresh; Emma, what do you hope that people take away from your portrayal of Bella? The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the London Review of Books, and it is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. However, its Victorian narrative takes in Gray's previous concerns with social inequalities, relationships, memory and identity. [3] Plot [ edit ] Poor Things has been rated R, due to its strong sexual content and graphic nudity. The film also includes disturbing material, gore and language. Is there a trailer for ‘Poor Things’? 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.