If this continues, the association he started Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone It is on track to become the most impressive artistic relationship between a director and an actor since Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. It’s hard to decide if the second feature they’re doing together right now is better than the first, brutal tragicomedy ‘Favorite’, it is impossible to compare with the third because it is not over yet – they also collaborated on a short film -; What leaves no room for doubt is that ‘Poor creatures’ it is an outstanding movieIt is as radical as it is funny, as creative as it is definitive, as visually stunning as it is effective in addressing one of the most recurring problems in contemporary cinema. -The colossal misconception that men continue to make about women- without stopping for a moment unique and surprising.
Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name published by the Scots. Alasdair Gray It combines the following elements in 1992: gothic fantasy, historical fiction, and science fiction for to re-imagine the legend of frankenstein We say it with a modern approach. The protagonist of the movie is a woman who, after committing suicide, is miraculously brought back to life by a doctor through suspicious methods, thanks to the brain of the baby she is carrying; But it soon becomes clear that she is not merely a creature designed to satisfy her creator’s whims, but a cheerful, curious, and determined young woman who at first radiates an unmistakably childlike innocence but gradually reveals extraordinary intelligence.
Freedom, intelligence and sex
Meanwhile, as she takes control of her own identity, she uses every man she meets (who always tries to make him who they want) to gain her freedom and intelligence. Often, very often, through sex, which they stage admirably openly and creatively.
The ‘poor creatures’ refer to something as they contemplate this process: so aesthetic Dazzling with its baroque style during It combines the Victorian era with futurism and black and white with the hottest colors; replaces memorable moments with images of pig-headed chickens or men spitting their stomachs into the air and dare to argue that prostitution is a form of feminism and even socialism. Maybe Lanthimos’ most devastating filmand that says a lot about the director of ‘Canine’ and ‘Lobster’. And it includes the best performance of Stone’s entire career. Thanks to him, they should give him the greatest rewards. They probably won’t dare.
‘Mads Mikkelsen’s bastard’
He is also a contender for the Golden Lion. ‘Bastards’ Above all, it is a tribute to both the indomitable protagonist (Ludvig Kahlen, bastard son of a nobleman who became a captain in the German army in the 18th century) and the charisma of the actor who represents him. Mads Mikkelsen. Early in the film, Kahlen persuades a council of the king’s advisers to allow him to set up a settlement on the wasteland. JutlandIt’s an inhospitable landscape where crops don’t grow. For most of the remaining two hours of footage, we see him face-to-face with fortitude. terrible weather, violent raider gangs and a sadistic aristocrat Acting like a bad guy like there’s no tomorrow.
Meanwhile the manager Nikolaj Arcel It offers a meticulously calculated combination of action and violence, courtly betrayals, romance and family melodrama to please the widest possible audience, and it must be admitted that it succeeds. film It will undoubtedly be a blockbuster in Denmark and possibly Denmark’s Oscar nominee.