For me it's the absolute best of Yorgos Lanthimos, the distillation of a near-horror feel that I'm striving for a lot in my work these days.
My feeling on Yorgos is the more he tries to do a big narrative or anti-narrative the worse he fails, but something short and non-verbal like this is perfect for him.
Agree completely, it's a perfect example of him trying to do a 'big boy narrative' that's simply too much for him. The feminism, anticolonialism and socialism in the book are touched on like little fetishes and not explored in any way. Either a postive or negative interrogation of those issues would have been preferable to the superficial non-involvement and hand-waving.
There are also excesses in the cinematography which are like Wes Anderson on ketamine, but that's another matter.
I think that’s the least of his problems, but it’s true that the Glasgow gothic of the original would have added a more ‘authentic’ Stevenson-like flavour.
Cuckoo cuckoo, the bird that gets the egg...
Daphne Patakia murders this role, she's so excellent at being offbeat and menacing in the cutest way possible.
The sourness of the music, the clickety-clacks that have no obvious source.
It’s such a bizarre little film!
For me it's the absolute best of Yorgos Lanthimos, the distillation of a near-horror feel that I'm striving for a lot in my work these days.
My feeling on Yorgos is the more he tries to do a big narrative or anti-narrative the worse he fails, but something short and non-verbal like this is perfect for him.
I didn't like how he adapted Poor Things at all! He completely twisted the book!
Agree completely, it's a perfect example of him trying to do a 'big boy narrative' that's simply too much for him. The feminism, anticolonialism and socialism in the book are touched on like little fetishes and not explored in any way. Either a postive or negative interrogation of those issues would have been preferable to the superficial non-involvement and hand-waving.
There are also excesses in the cinematography which are like Wes Anderson on ketamine, but that's another matter.
It would have been such an interesting film if he hadn’t changed the location to London.
I think that’s the least of his problems, but it’s true that the Glasgow gothic of the original would have added a more ‘authentic’ Stevenson-like flavour.