Review of Poor Things

Amazing film - every time I watch a Yorgos Lanthimos film I think "that's the weirdest film I am ever likely to see", and this one was no exception. Visually stunning, with some fabulous real sets in Hungary and elsewhere, and some CGI creations too. The scenes on a cruise ship were particularly attractive, the more so because we got on a dreary Brittany Ferries ship the following day, which was comfortable enough but might as well have been an airport lounge.

The plot was implausible (is the book different?) but that didn't really matter - it felt much like a fable or a dream. There have been some nasty comments online that it's a "male gaze" film, but it didn't feel like that to me (or to Ruth, thankfully). 

Some great acting, especially by Emma Stone, who manages to make the intellectual and physical development of her character from baby-brain in an adult body to fully grown ersatz human seem entirely believable.

We watched this at a cinema and you should too.