Poor creatures arrived in streaming, with Emma Stone: Unscrupulous, shameless and politically incorrect

Impartial, shameless and politically incorrect. That’s how poor creatures (Poor things), the film by Yorgos Lanthimos with Emma Stone which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and four Oscars, for best leading actress (Emma Stone), set design, costumes and make-up.

Just the Oscar-winning actress for The The Earth bet on strong and hot roles. Here she is Bella Baxter, nymphomaniac and deformed. A young pregnant woman jumps off a bridge into the Thames and drowns. She is saved by a surgeon (Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe), who brings her back to life.

AS? Well, he takes out her brain and inserts it into the brain of the baby she was carrying.

Bella’s body has no correlation with her brain, so she must learn to speak, communicate, and recognize what is politically and socially correct. It’s not easy, especially when around him Baxter, whose face is disfigured by cuts, has also created different combinations of animals (pig’s head, goose’s body, among others).

To watch from home Bella who, for example, learns about pleasure by inserting fruit into her vagina, you must be associated with Star+.

Baxter, who Bella simply calls God, was subjected to all kinds of experiments by his father as a child. And hire a student to assist you. Yes, there’s a lot of Frankenstein floating across the screen. And yes, as Max (Ramy Youssef) notes, Bella is growing rapidly and acquiring about 15 new words a day. He even walks better, although he is still awkward with his body and is extremely curious about what happens outside the house.

Everything that is known, applauds and criticizes

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is based on the novel by Alasdair Gray Poor things, but weighs it with everything it is known, applauded and criticized for. Aesthetically the scenery and photography (black and white and colour) are truly impressive. We are in 1880s Europe, between London, Lisbon and Paris, but the backgrounds are deliberately fake and theatrical and the costumes combine Victorian with the style of the 60s.

And stylistically it’s like The favourite -where Stone had already worked with Lanthimos-, Lobster, The sacrifice of the sacred deer OR Canine. That is: surreal microcosms (the cities are halfway between the futuristic and the past, very much in the style of Terry Gilliam) and an exacerbated taste for the macabre, both in sexual and dramatic terms.

Marco Ruffalo It’s Duncan, the libertine who takes Bella to Lisbon, and he doesn’t look out of place in this trio of protagonists, but the one who attracts all the attention is the actress Cruellawho undresses in several sex scenes.

Lanthimos is as provocative as ever, if a little indulgent. He draws Baxter as a boy who is proud of his daughter, you could even say it’s a father/daughter relationship. He is inciting, he can make us look sideways or wrinkle our noses in some scenes. If, as Hitchcock said, copying yourself is style, poor creatures It is Lanthimos in its purest form.

“Poor creatures”

Dramatic comedy. Ireland/UK/US, 2023. Original title: “Poor things”. 142′, SAM 16. From: Yorgos Lanthimos. With: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youseff. In theaters and, starting this Wednesday, March 20, on Star+.