This, at the cinema, is the year of women. The Barbie phenomenon, the debut of Lily Gladstone, Paola Cortellesi and finally Bella Baxter. To her and her magnetic charm is dedicated Poor creatures! film Searchlight Pictures directed by Yorgos Lanthimos who won two Golden Globe and 4 Oscars. Written by Tony McNamara and inspired by the 1992 book of Alasdair Gray, he was released on January 25 in Italian theatres, distributed by The Walt Disney Company Italia. After passing on Disney+ from March 2 it is on Sky and NOW, on October 24 it arrives clear on Heaven for the first time, on March 15, 2026 it is redesigned.
Povere creature!, storia macabra di una donna che non conosce vergogna
We’re at the end of 1800. Godwin Baxter has had a painful life. The father, a medical examiner, has tried on him many of his theories. Now, adult and deformed, he wants to do the same. He was in possession of a very fresh corpse, that of an unhappy woman who had jumped into the river, decided to revive him. As a brain, however, he uses the fetus that the woman carried in her lap at the time of death. The result? Bella Baxter: a bizarre experiment, a beautiful Frankenstein woman whose mental development goes fast and knows no shame because she has not undergone Victorian education. His progress is recorded by a student of Baxter, McCandless, who falls in love with him. Before deciding to settle, however, Bella Baxter will have to experience the world in his own way. That’s why he will embark on an international journey with the playboy Duncan.
Povere creature! Barbie diventa un mostro (o quasi)
What if a woman wasn’t educated on shame and smell? This is the central question of the film, the real experiment. Controverted, of course, because we are talking about a woman with a child brain, but it gets even very quickly. What would happen if your desires (even carnals) were not cut off on the birth? What are we without the education of the times when we were born, without the influence of society? It seems that the answer is free, as is Bella Baxter, a kind of Barbie passed under the negative filter, which has been dismantled and now, reassembled, seeks his place in the world without abandoning the idea that you can do good. With a tribute to a grotesque ending and some difficult scene to look at, because always Yorgos Lanthimos are talking.
Una sceneggiatura interessante
If the theme interests you and you are thinking about reading the book, do it first. The literary operation is interesting, but the version on the large screen works of cuts and selections that are interesting both in comparison with the work and in itself, and make fully understand the intentions of the director. The scenography, the soundtrack, the costumes and interpretation of Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo specifically do the rest. We face a fascinating macabre film, which tries to unleash in us the same indignation that Bella Baxter unleashed in his contemporaries, which makes clear his intentions but not for this renunciation of honesty. To see.
Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.© 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.
Il cast
Bella Baxter is interpreted by a wonderful and magnetic Emma Stone. Godwin Baxter is Willem Dafoe. The role of Dr. McCandless is Ramy Youssef. Mark Ruffalo interprets the refined and unscrupulous (almost) Duncan. In the cast also Christopher Abbott, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Kathryn Hunter and Margaret Qualley.
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