Poor Things: Soon to be a major film

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Needless to say, she sees things quite differently, a sharp turn of events that casts everything that came before in quite a different light.

By any standards, this is a marvellous, endearing book: a virtuoso feat of literary ventriloquism that projects literary voices from Hogg to George ("Flashman") MacDonald Fraser, while preserving its author's own dogged anarcho-socialist decency." - Christopher Harvie, New Statesman & Society

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David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it "an insanely enjoyable fairy tale", adding that Stone "gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about". [40] Variety 's Guy Lodge also believed that the film "rests on a single astonishing performance by Stone". [41] LOS DELINCUENTES' BY RODRIGO MORENO AND MUSIC FROM 'POOR THINGS' GRAB TOP PRIZES AT 50TH EDITION FILM FEST GENT". Film Fest Ghent. October 20, 2023 . Retrieved October 22, 2023. Mr. Gray contrasts the political and moral bleakness of contemporary Britain with the civic energy that characterized the best of Victorian values, now lost. He underlines the harm done to Scotland. Poor Things is a political book. It is also witty and delightfully written, if at times two-dimensional. Attention to Victorian Glasgow with its civic fountains, domestic interiors and medical schools gives the book texture. It is the characters, and strangely enough its phantasmagoria, that give it life." - Geoff Ryman, The New York Times Book Review a b Lodge, Guy (September 1, 2023). " 'Poor Things' Review: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos Fly Their Freak Flags in a Delicious Coming-of-Age Story Like No Other". Variety . Retrieved September 1, 2023. The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the London Review of Books, and it is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. However, its Victorian narrative takes in Gray's previous concerns with social inequalities, relationships, memory and identity. [3] Plot [ edit ]

Book Genre: Classics, Cultural, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, Scotland Poor Things involves a woman, Bella,being given a brain transplant after drowning herself. The brain comes from her unborn child, and the operation conducted by her father turns her into a sort of Frankenstein’s monster. Gray, Alasdair, James Kelman, and Tom Toremans. "An Interview with Alasdair Gray and James Kelman." Contemporary Literature 44.4 (2003): 565-586. Mark Ruffalo to Receive Santa Barbara International Film Festival's American Riviera Award". November 20, 2023 . Retrieved November 21, 2023.

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Les premiers titres de la programmation! - Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon" (in French). August 31, 2023 . Retrieved November 7, 2023. Poor Things review: Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo lead a demented comedy of self-creation and degradation". W. September 3, 2023 . Retrieved September 10, 2023. Lewis, Hilary (October 24, 2023). " 'Past Lives,' 'A Thousand and One' and 'All of Us Strangers' Top Gotham Awards Film Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 25, 2023. Lanthimos draws on Lynch’s The Elephant Man and Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, and Emma Stone’s gloriously artless heroine has something of Herzog’s Kaspar Hauser or Emily Watson’s Bess in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. Her faintly jerky head movements and unselfconscious gait – awkward and yet somehow elegant at the same time – is also rather like Ray Bolger’s Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. It's such a fairy tale, and a metaphor—clearly, this can't actually happen—but the idea that you could start anew as a woman, as this body that's already formed, and see everything for the first time and try to understand the nature of sexuality, or power, or money or choice, the ability to make choices and live by your own rules and not society's—I thought that was a really fascinating world to go into."

Mark Ruffalo’s Duncan Wedderburn is a caddish lawyer and inveterate gambler who steals Bella away on a long European trip, thinking to take advantage of the comely, innocent young woman. But he gets a surprise when her appetites exceed his and he can’t keep up. Kaczvinsky, Donald P. "Making up for Lost Time": Scotland, Stories, and the Self in Alasdair Gray's" Poor Things." Contemporary Literature 42.4 (2001): 775-799.

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a b Bradshaw, Peter (September 1, 2023). "Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos's virtuoso comic epic". The Guardian . Retrieved September 3, 2023. The 28th Busan International Film Festival: Selection List". Busan International Film Festival. September 5, 2023 . Retrieved September 11, 2023.