DESIGN & CINEMA: Poor Things (+ film analysis)
Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos
Ireland-UK-USA, 2023, 2h21, French subtitles
with Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
In Victorian London, a woman commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into a river. But her body is purchased on the black market by Dr. Godwin Baxter, who plans to transplant a fetal brain into the deceased's skull in order to revive her. After The Favourite in 2018, Poor Creatures is the second collaboration between Yórgos Lánthimos and American actress Emma Stone, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice in 2023. An adaptation of the same name from Alasdair Gray's novel, Poor Creatures condenses certain thematic threads from Yórgos Lánthimos's earlier feature films, made in Greece: Canine for the desire to escape from an enclosed space in order to explore the world, and Alps for the return of the dead to life. A hybrid film of violently artificial beauty, Poor Creatures explicitly invokes the myth of Frankenstein, transforming it into a tale of female emancipation whose interpretation can be ambivalent.
The screening will be followed by an analysis of the film by Nicolas Thévenin, editor of the magazine Répliques and a lecturer at l'école de design Nantes Atlantique.
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