Plot: Bella is a young woman with the brain of an infant. She lives with a doctor, who hires an assistant to track Bella's progress. She makes great progress and seems to be growing up a lot faster than expected. Soon she cannot be confined to the house anymore, but her two guardians are afraid of what'll happen when she ventures out into the real world. They decide the assistant is going to marry Bella, but she wants an adventure before she commits to marriage, so she finds a charming man willing to take her on
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January 27, 2024
Lanthimos goes all-in and delivers his first full-on masterpiece. Poor Things is a film bustling with creativity, dripping with excess, and referencing so many styles and stories that it's almost impossible to see it as a singular work. And yet it feels polished and complete. It's Frankenstein by the way of The Handmaiden, peppered with Wes Anderson influences and flashes of Perfume. It took Lanthimos a while to develop his signature style in something I could wholeheartedly appreciate, but Poor Things is 100% that film. A very cool surprise.