Poor Things is one of the big Oscar winners of 2024. You can now secure the unusual sci-fi comedy starring Emma Stone for your home cinema.
Emma Stone was moved to tears when she accepted her second Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards. After the musical La La Land, this time she impressed as the female version of Frankenstein’s monster in the original work Poor Things by director Yorgos Lanthimos. The retro sci-fi spectacle was nominated in 10 other categories. It also won the Golden Boy for Costume Design, Production Design and Make-up and Hairstyling
The sci-fi comedy Poor Things with Emma Stone is an extremely idiosyncratic work
If you’re looking for original material in this age of sequels and remakes, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is always the right choice. He already created a feature film with sci-fi elements with The Lobster, which brought him a lot of attention.
The intriguing historical comedy The Favourite, in which Lanthimos skillfully showcased his actresses, was completely sci-fi-free. Olivia Colman won her first Oscar under his direction and Emma Stone was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the time.
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With Poor Things, Lanthimos combines parts of his previous works: we have a historical costume film like The Favorite and experiments are carried out on humans like in The Lobster. Above all, there is a bizarre, black humor. Critics describe Poor Things as the director’s best work to date, and the film also has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 92 percent.
Funny and provocative: this is what the sci-fi comedy Poor Things is about
Lanthimos is not only relying on tried-and-tested actors, The Favourite screenwriter Tony McNamara has also returned to turn Alasdair Gray’s novel into a screenplay. In the sci-fi film, scarred scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) transplants the brain of a baby into a dead woman.
Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is the newly created human who quickly grows up and discovers her sexuality. Seduced by womanizer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), she leaves Godwin and embarks on a journey through Europe with Duncan.
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Poor Things is visually great cinema between black and white gothic horror and brightly colored cyber-punk. This unusual adaptation is also impressive for its content. Despite the humor, the film deals with serious themes. Bella, a creature from the future, created with the victims of the past, stands up for equality and liberation. She sees the conventional male world of the Victorian age with different eyes and breaks every rule imposed on women of her time.
