Pfreaky creatures! (in competition A. Venice 80 and in theaters from January 25) starts as Anna Wonderlandbecomes Frankenstein and continues as a story of female fulfillment (also untranslated “empowerment”). As for the minutes of applause that accompanies the chronicle of each public preview, Emma Stone is already talking about an Oscar nomination. Too much? No. Because construction Handsome Baxter, character based on the novel by Alasdair Gray and translated for cinema by a Greek director Yorgos Lanthimosis – using a hackneyed expression – manifestation of the power of pleasant irreverence.
The scientist brought a young woman back to life, who, in turn, was sewn up.doctor Godwin Baxter (Willem Defoe) who, with zero degree of naivete, discovers and attacks bourgeois conventions. From more versatile (or at least trying) to good manners, the given answer, the baby who screams, and what’s the harm in it if you want to beat him (and why not, Athena Cenci already did it in 1981 West of Donald).
Emma Stone in Venice 80s Poor beings!: never been so naked, never so ugly
With her Victorian-era hair down, looking like a twisted, futuristic candy store.Emma Stone walks with difficulty, has bizarre syntax, spits food and moans in lace dresses and ruffles with unheard-of bulges, discovers alternative uses for the cucumber, and accepts all of its creator Godwin’s impositions (God willing; such as marriage to one of his students). But dream, look through the curtains and see the city from the roof.
It has long been unclear where Lanthimos is driving with this, if this Poor beings! — just a virtuoso essay about a loser on display. Then, with the arrival Mark Ruffalo (Duncan Wedderburn)lawyer who decides to release Bella into the world (“I will marry you,” she tells her boyfriend, “but first I will go to Lisbon, I am warm to Duncan”), everything becomes clear: this basically it’s growing up when you laugh a lot.
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Creatures! (Pictures of spotlights).
Where at every stage of the journey of the time couple the poor creature receives information about culture and customs. About the ugliness of life from the poor to brothels where women sell themselves but lead the socialist struggle. And the more he learns, the more crazy and cries Duncan, who thought he had an innocent doll in his hands. he finds himself snatching Ralph Waldo Emerson’s books from her hands. Martha hands her books – resurrected Anna Shigulla. These are irresistible moments of short circuit between a rude and narrow-minded fellow traveler and one who talks about the concept of cynicism.
“Poor creatures!”, English poster. (Pictures of spotlights).
The role of an alien, a strange, freak seems to Emma a natural fact. One of the reasons lies in the long gestation of the project. Poor creatures!, started with Yorgos in 2017 (this is their third project). The other concerns the not indifferent characteristic of the correct physical form, correct wide-open eyes (an occasion for a joke in the Golden Globe edition).
Although compared to an equally ugly performance Caleb Landry Jones DogMan Luc Besson (last yesterday in Mostre), Stone pays the price for a fairy tale against the most pleasant world of transvestites, as well as some elementary emancipationhis Bella is a living character, whom he knows how to convey in more than one dimension. A role model in sincerity and humanity, a freak, but an anti-freak. because it does not conform to the norm that governs. The creature is imprisoned, then released, then imprisoned, but according to its own rules.
And his revenge is no less pleasant cut Douglas/Caleb. Whether this will be enough to win the Volpi Cup on the third day of the exhibition is too early to say. (the actress did not come to Lido due to the SAG-Aftra strike). Just in time for the Oscars, but you know, the nomination campaign never stops now. Indeed, it all starts with the Venice Film Festival.
Cast Poor beings! The line-up includes: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Rami Yousef, Christopher Abbott, Susie Bemba, Jerrod Carmichael, Katherine Hunter, Vicki Pepperdine, Margaret Qualley and Hanna Shigulla.
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