Yorgos Lanthimos‘s new film is the year's weirdest coming-of-age tale.
couldn’t exactly be called sentimental. Not the grim shock ofnot even the sci-fi romance , which premiered here at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, takes a long, strange trip toward something like sweetness.is a sci-fi fairytale Bildungsroman about a Frankensteinian monster as she makes her way in the world.plays Bella Baxter, who is the ward of a mad scientist professor, Godwin , and whose very existence is a freakish abnormality.
It’s vaguely 1880s Europe, the film journeying from London to Lisbon to Paris, all done up in a fanciful style reminiscent of’s work. Steampunk elements dot the picture occasionally, backdrops are deliberately false and theatrical, the costumes are at times Victorian puffiness mixed with 1960s go-go mod. It’s an arresting film to behold, though its relentless style risks exhaustion.
Much of her discovery comes in the form of sex, which Lanthimos stages in vivid detail without a hint of bashfulness. Stone gamely commits to these scenes, as she does to the entirety of this huge, demanding role that carries her from infant to woman in full. It’s a marvelous turn, witty but not overly arch. Stone seamlessly shifts between the film’s comedy and its mounting wistfulness, as Bella comes of age with a keen and hard-won appreciation of her improbable place in the world.
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