Poor Things

Film - 2023

8,1

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Poor Things it's a movie with Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Margaret Qualley Full cast. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Original title Poor Things Genres Sci-Fi, Romance, Horror.

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Review of

Valentina

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 don't want to dwell too much on the plot, also because I noticed that it is one of Filmamo's currently most 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 alchemy, success is guaranteed and the Stone/Ruffalo couple definitely hit the mark. The film itself disappointed me a little, perhaps I had too high expectations, "the fault" of the post-Oscar vision, where clearly the film is been pumped up again 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. Read all

Poor great Emma of

Diego Cineriflessi

How can you describe an experience like watching Poor Creatures! Clearly it is a film in which Lanthimos' trademark is clearly evident, but it is completely different from any of his other films. Shocking and courageous are the two adjectives that come to mind first. It all starts from the direction, perfect in creating worlds and spying on its characters. Lanthimos' camera works surgically, wandering around bewildering environments and creating gradually different atmospheres that always reflect the protagonist's states of mind. A great help is given by the beautiful photography and the impressive sets. She towers over Emma Stone in the role of a career, which allows her to interpret all ages of life in a single character. Incredible performance, more physical in the first part and more and more intense as the film progresses. Excellent supporting actors Willem Dafoe, now a sure thing in freak roles and Mark Ruffalo, a Gascon of yesteryear. Of course there is a bit of soul missing from the script. Lanthimos talks about science, evolution, death, exploitation, democracy, freedom, emancipation, perhaps too much for a single film which ultimately gives the impression of being a magnificent exercise in style, not completely inspired. It breaks down a bit too much in the episodes even if the underlying theme of a candid works. Golden Lion at the last Venice Film Festival and arriving in theaters after all this waiting, it is a good film, one of those that get under the skin, that stimulate the brain, but which in the end do not reach the heart. No one denies that we would like more courageous films, but The Favorite remains his most accomplished film. Read all

Review of

Ignazio Venzano

I align myself with the average of the reviews that have appeared so far on filmamo, but I add my opinion, which would be in favor of an even higher rating. For two considerations, one on the story and the other on the setting. For me the story is that of the maturation of a newborn's brain on an adult's body. The adult has all the impulses of adults, the brain tries to adapt. In other words, feelings align with the brain, there is no predominance of reason over passions. In other words, becoming fully adults does not mean having to mortify feelings, but means being able to manage them together with the intellect. We are not (fortunately) in the presence of a treatise on evolutionary psychology, and there are probably exaggerations on some traits of maturation (sexuality) to the detriment of others, but for me the overall message is clear: the achievement of maturity is the balance of the person. As for the setting, it is as crazy as the story, in the sense that so far (luckily) the transplants foreshadowed by the film have never happened. I don't know the novel from which the screenplay was based, but I found it absolutely logical to accompany a crazy story with an equally invented setting, in places that certainly exist with those names, but have never been as they are seen in the film. I also understand the reasons for the more critical opinions than mine on the film, I fully agree with the more than positive opinion on Emma Stone's interpretation, but in conclusion I must say that this film not only entertained them for its logical madness, but that it was probably very different it couldn't be done. Read all

Review of

Emiliano Baglio

Perhaps Poor Creatures is a provocation. But let's proceed in order. For the first time Yorgos Lanthimos brings a novel to the screen, in this specific case the book of the same name by Alasdair Gray. To do so he decides to rely on a highly theatrical staging; sets reconstructed in the studio with painted backdrops and massive use of computer graphics against which the actors talk and talk in often exhausting dialogues while the action completely disappears and the concepts are stated rather than staged. The settings are steampunk and recall to an ideal Victorian age and everything seems to be a mix between the fake sets of Annette by Leos Carax and the tables of Moebius. For the rest we are faced with a variation of the story of Frankenstein, while the creation of the "monster" is a clear quote from Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Cinema enters the scene in the form of continuous wide-angle and fish-eye shots that Lanthimos places every 3x2 while alternating color with black and white. No trace remains of the rigorous, geometric and aseptic staging of previous films any. The director seems rather to rely on his actors, leaving them free to overdo it with a perpetually over the top acting which, too, has little to do with his previous efforts. Emma Stone, in the role of Bella Baxter seems to be the one who Mark Ruffalo has more fun but no less in the role of Duncan. More to the side Ramy Youssef, alias Max, Bella's betrothed and above all Willem Dafoe who plays Doctor Godwin, or God, the god who created Bella and who is the He is the only one who does not load his character with grotesque accents and avoids letting himself go too much. Even the three cities that Bella and Duncan pass through on their journey leave something to be desired with Paris which is reduced to a square with snow. Even worse is the interlude set to Read all

Review of

Balkan Castevet

The narrative places Bella in different situations and this highlights her gaze also through the social position she "holds" at that moment. Her journey and path is one of both sexual and cultural maturation and also of understanding towards a world full of contradictions and constructed morality. Lanthimos does not give easy escapes in the film, in fact Bella will try all possible experiences but will not be fascinated by the politics, from society, from various contexts, it is no coincidence that she will find her paradise, her Eden right at home with that very interesting ending where Bella, after all the long journey, creates her own domestic paradise, rejecting the world but trying to improve it in her own way by carrying out the total reversal seen at the beginning.Bella is no longer the controlled girl but is herself the creator, a bit like in Frankenhooker the female figure takes control.It is no coincidence that the film cites Henenlotter's film several times also visually, for example the scene of Bella during the operation and the ending itself conceptually recalls it. Beautiful and successful ending also because Bella previously disavows some actions committed by "her father" God but she will carry out these actions therefore on the one hand she confines herself to her domestic Eden with the wonderful shot of the garden as if to say that she can only be herself there because society rejects her and she herself rejects society but at the same time positive attitude in wanting to change the world for the better world will be "revised".Bella will probably still want to change it but by carrying out actions that she herself previously criticized, therefore another step and a vein of pessimism that Lanthimos inserts as always in the endings of his films which reflects the appearance, the social position.How overwritten the concept of control, of who has power over whom, is a concept Read all

EXCELLENT IDEA BUT MISSED OPPORTUNITY of

Cocca Farlocca

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A brilliant idea that could have given life to a masterpiece. The result was a good film with an exceptional performance by Stone, one of my favorite actresses. I can say that female power and the influence women have on men - for better or for worse - is what comes out the most in this film. And I'm happy about that. Read all

plot

Bella Baxter is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.