Poor Things
- 2024 film
Black, period sci-fi comedy about a young Victorian woman who is brought back to life by an eccentric scientist. Stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott and more.
Streaming rank this week: 90
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Poor Things' Victorian-style fashion shows a beautiful side to the Frankenstein tale
While we've come to associate the visuals of Frankenstein with ugliness, when it comes to costumes in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things - a quasi-Frankenstein tale based on the '90s novel of the same name - they are anything but horrid. The technicolor 19th-century fashion featured throughout the film - out now - paints a much brighter picture than what you imagine from a story that begins with a woman undergoing a brain transplant experiment following her attempt to take her own life.
Frances Solá-Santiago, Refinery 29, 9th January 2024Poor Things review
Alasdair Gray adaptation is wildly wonderful.
The Herald, 9th January 2024Poor Things review
A stunning steampunk fairy tale with a deeply uncomfortable edge.
Kevin Ibbotson-Wight, The Wee Review, 9th January 2024Poor Things: Nicola Sturgeon weighs in on debate over adaptation
Nicola Sturgeon has said she is "curious" to see how the adaptation of Alasdair Gray's Poor Things manages to separate itself from the original work's Glasgow setting.
Adam Robertson, The National (Scotland), 7th January 2024Director Yorgos Lanthimos on Poor Things, shame and his creative soulmate Emma Stone
The outlandish new film from the celebrated Greek director of The Favourite and The Lobster is already one of the most talked-about movies of 2024. He discusses adapting Alasdair Gray's novel and what makes him laugh.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 31st December 2023'Bloody nonsense': how Glasgow was cut from the Oscar-tipped film Poor Things
The starry new version of Alasdair Gray's book expunges almost all of its Scottish context. Along the writer and artist's trail through the city, locals let their feelings be known.
Robin McKie, The Guardian, 31st December 2023