Poor Things

From Yorgos Lanthimos – director of The Favourite and The Lobster – comes this dizzying trip inside the mind of Bella (Emma Stone), an entirely new creature on this Earth. Constructed from discarded parts by her creator-cum-father Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), she refuses to conform to type, soon travelling the world with Duncan (Mark Ruffalo), experiencing our world as an innocent with a prodigious taste for life and trouble.

Based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, this is a sumptuous, visually overwhelming take on Frankenstein, considered from a twenty-first century feminist perspective that helps us consider what it means to be a person with a body. Full of outlandish detail and moments of abrasive humour, Poor Things is part Victorian picaresque, part baroque painting, and simply one of the year’s must see films.