‘Poor Things’ Review: Monster Mash
Emma Stone runs amok with Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos’s off-key Victorian-era riff on “Frankenstein.”
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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos on ‘Poor Things’
“I’m a girl from Arizona and he’s a guy from Athens. I don’t know how this worked,” she says. Their latest project, “Poor Things,” may be Oscar-bound.
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‘Poor Things’ Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone as a woman who goes on a sexual and philosophical journey. The announcement of its win was met with a roar of applause.
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At Venice Film Festival, Trapped Women and Controlling Men
This year’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Bradley Cooper in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men.