What disturbs shockmaster Yorgos Lanthimos? The provocateur’s last two films, “Poor Things” and “The Favourite,” surprised even longtime Lanthimos fans by racking up 21 Academy Award nominations and two actress wins for leads Emma Stone and Olivia Colman, cementing him as one of the greatest women’s directors since George Cukor. “Dogtooth” and “The Lobster,” Lanthimos’s breakthrough marvels, covered the same …
The teaser of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming feature Poor Things was released by Searchlight Pictures today. Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, and Christopher Abbott headline the film. In the short teaser, however, it doesn’t seem like the Victorian era but more like an alternate world that has come alive through Lanthimos’ much-revered, fascinating imagination. Poor …
