Finally got to see Poor Things. I have not read the book, so I’ll defer to you on that, but the film with its lurid plot points and bawdy humour reminded me of that other Enlightenment tradition. I think this conte philosophic is Lanthimos at his finest. A win for the aesthetes!
C'est vrai! I hadn't expected from the book, which was mainly about politics, that the film would be so pornographic, so I took my decidedly non-aesthete mother to see it over the holidays. She did think it was funny, so all was well.
*conte philosophique, naturellement.
Finally got to see Poor Things. I have not read the book, so I’ll defer to you on that, but the film with its lurid plot points and bawdy humour reminded me of that other Enlightenment tradition. I think this conte philosophic is Lanthimos at his finest. A win for the aesthetes!
C'est vrai! I hadn't expected from the book, which was mainly about politics, that the film would be so pornographic, so I took my decidedly non-aesthete mother to see it over the holidays. She did think it was funny, so all was well.