Film Review – Poor Things

The unthinkable happened to the last film Yorgos Lanthimos directed: it became a hit. The highly eccentric and challenging moviemaker went from years in the indie film trenches to something sellable with 2018’s “The Favourite,” which didn’t dilute his love of mischief and the macabre. He connected with viewers in a new way, giving his career a marketplace and financial boost, and Lanthimos chooses to cash in with “Poor Things,” working with screenwriter Tony McNamara on an adaptation of a 1992 Alasdair Gray novel. Idiosyncrasy and general oddity remains in the picture, which is a mild take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” only with incredible acts of oversexed behavior and a continued dedication to the strangeness Lanthimos loves to put on the screen. While “Poor Things” is lively at times and gorgeously produced, Lanthimos comes dangerously close to self-parody with the feature, which runs out of demented visuals and overall quirk long before it reaches the end credits. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com