Element Partners Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe On The Audacity Of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Most of the serious candidates for Best Picture and other major awards are known quantities, but if you are looking for a dark horse comp for Everything Everywhere All At Once, get ready for Poor Things.
A Golden Lion winner at Venice and buzz title at Telluride, New York and Busan, Poor Things has been a relative secret, because the strike prevented its cast from promoting it.
That changes Friday, as Searchlight launches in limited theaters before a wide berth December 22. Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow to The Favourite stars Emma Stone as Bella, who starts as a childlike waif who pads around a mansion with limited vocabulary and developmental skills under the watchful eye of her heavily scarred father (Willem Dafoe).
It takes time for the viewer to feel grounded in this revisionist but highly original take on the Frankenstein story. Once a caddish lothario (Mark Ruffalo) takes Bella to see the world — she comes of age in a brothel of all things — the fantastical magic begins.
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