Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Searchlight Pictures
Last year, Yorgos Lanthimos directed a dark comedy about a woman named Bella who was assembled from the body of an adult and the brain of a fetus in a Frankenstein-like surgery and who went on to fuck her way to self-actualization across a fantastical Europe. It was the most accessible thing the Athens-born director had ever made, which really says more about his overall body of work than it does about Poor Things.
Lanthimos is one of film’s reigning sadists, though he’s always funny about it — if not funny haha, then funny in a tone so…
