Ashlley

Poor Things is a marvel-lous, wonder-ful, con-fabulation. It invokes Mary Shelley’s autonomy and story-bones, my favourite Jan Saudek’s art, with nods to Tod Browning’s ‘Freaks’, and Tim Burton, and a script of trio words poetry. It deals with power and male/female dynamics, age-youth, dare-fear, in a playful, astute, past-and-future, then-and-now, here-and-gone-and-resussitated - living in a Steampunk world. If you like Tim Burton and Wes Andersen, you might love this too. It is classic arthouse imagineering. I have not read Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel 'Poor Things' - I might now. This is the best film I have seen in a long time - up there on my list with ‘Mood Indigo’, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’, ‘Alice…, and ‘City of Lost Children’. An imaginative romp, with a little of the sex that was so good in the French/English series of Versailles, and a heroine with Villanelle’s guts, calm and self-examination. It also made me laugh out loud in some places. Superb! Thank you, Yorgos Lanthimos!