Poor creatures, from today it will be Emma Stone's workhorse. A well-deserved Oscar for the interpretation of a character that was not at all easy. An extremely fascinating creature Bella, the champion of women, who shows us what we all should be, the faithful representation of freedom, of female emancipation, of power and control of one's mind and body, or to put it simply...The girl power in all its glory!

A story that shows us what happens if a woman is aware of this power and indulges her desires without worrying about what society might say.

Going into the technical aspect, I personally found the whole atmosphere very Burtonian, a nineteenth-century Victorian and Gothic context, without the dark shades that Lanthimos replaces with a triumph of pastel colours, overly exaggerated baroque style costumes.

I wouldn't want to dwell too much on the plot, also because I noticed that it is one of Filmamo's currently best-reviewed films, so I wouldn't tell anything new. What struck me was not so much the film itself, but the work of the cast, in particular Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, who implemented a small makeover to their filmography by choosing characters who work on different strings from those played up to now. When there is chemistry, success is guaranteed and the Stone/Ruffalo duo definitely hit the mark.

The film itself disappointed me a bit, perhaps I had too high expectations, "the fault" of the post-Oscar viewing , where clearly the film has been once again pumped up and labeled as a modern masterpiece, when the real masterpiece is undoubtedly its protagonist. The initial idea that guides the entire film inevitably ends up leaving room for a binary and predictable ending. So much campaign in favor of non-conformism slowly fades away, leaving room for a conventional down-to-earth outcome. A great shame.