Tag: Yorgos Lanthimos
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Poor Things: Welcome to the Monster Mish-Mash
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she…
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“The Favourite”: A Historical Story About Three Women, Monarchial Treachery and Seventeen Rabbits
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is a specialist on absurd forms of cruelty. In The Favourite Lanthimos gives up the absurd for the cruelly humanly comic and comes up with his most nasty and pleasing torment piece yet. This story of two courtesans (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vying for the love, affection and the power…