Design cinema: Poor things | ROMUVA
June 7, 18:30 | Prasti reikalai
Kaunas Cinema “Romuva”, Laisvės al. 54
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Countries: Ireland, Hungary, United Kingdom, United States
Genres: Erotic, Fantastic, Comedy, Drama
Running time: 141 min.
Bela (Emma Stone) is a young girl who tries to take her own life by jumping off London’s Tower Bridge. Her plans are thwarted in the most audacious way: the eccentric but undoubtedly brilliant scientist Goodwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) heroically extracts her body from the water and revives it using a method that could only have been born of his fevered imagination. Alive but stunned, Bela Baxter begins to see the world anew and soon embarks on a journey of sexual discovery through surreal 19th-century Europe.
Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name, the romantic science fiction film Bad Things is a punkish version of Frankenstein that transforms into a deeply feminist tale about the right to control one’s own body and mind.
The film is the third collaboration between Oscar-winner Emma Stone (La La Land, 2016) and four-time Oscar-nominated Greek film director, producer, screenwriter, photographer, and ex-professional basketball player Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, 2015; The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2017; and The Favourite, 2018).