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Poor Things. 2023. USA/Great Britain/Ireland. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Screenplay by Tony McNamara. With Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Vicki Pepperdine. DCP. Courtesy Searchlight Pictures. 141 min.
Certainly the most imaginative and dementedly outrageous film to come out of this year’s Venice Film Festival, where it earned the Golden Lion, Poor Things is Yorgos Lanthimos’s greatest achievement to date, a bildungsroman, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, that follows the perilous and intoxicating journey through 19th-century London of one Bella Baxter, recently brought back to life by the Frankensteinian Dr. Goodwin Baxter, as she restlessly, doggedly charts her own path toward intellectual and sexual freedom. Even in a film staffed by uniformly brilliant actors (Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Hanna Schygulla)—something we’ve come to expect from the director behind such ensemble hits as The Lobster and The Favorite —Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance that is at once vital, hilarious, raunchy, and fiercely independent.