Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel of the same name, Poor Things is essentially a reimagining of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, wherein the resurrected corpse is that of a woman (Stone) who died by suicide, her body a perfect vessel for the curiosity of mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Wi...
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While at the Venice Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos spoke about the graphic sex and nudity of his new film "Poor Things," starring Emma Stone.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the ...
is a benevolent father (literally, Bella abbreviates “Godwin” to “God”; it’s also the last name of Mary Shelley’s father, a rich and knowing allusion). Buried in strata of comically disfiguring prosthetics, Dafoe gives a heart-melting performance as a worried and admiring guardian. ...
Alasdair Gray won the the Whitbread and Guardian Awards for POOR THINGS. He is also the author of THE BOOK OF PREFACES, the story-collection, TEN TALES TALL AND TRUE, and the groundbreaking modern classic, LANARK. Review this Product
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize A life without freedom to choose is not worth having. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realised when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in aFrank...
–The FT’s Raphael Abraham also wrote a review ofPoor Things– and gave it five stars:https://on.ft.com/49jGnKe –The article we mentioned, with 14 critics’ perspectives on the film, is here:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/24/bound-gagged-poor-things-feminist-masterpiece-...