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This scabrous and risky melodrama, with a magnificent performance by Emma Stone, is an object lesson in real art rising above social media scolding
Peter Bradshaw
29 February 2024
“You did not see me working on myself to get HAPPINESS did you?”
“What of the TONGUE-PLAY? Is that not happening?”
“I MUST GO PUNCH THAT BABY!”
Emma Stone’s delivery of the many outrageous laugh lines in Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant and scabrous Poor Things is cause enough to hand over the best picture Oscar right away.But there is also the deliciously offensive Frankensteinian high concept, the hallucinatory cinematography switching between colour and monochrome, the inspired production design and costumes, the insinuating musical score which appears at first to mimic our heroine’s childish thumping on the piano, then surge and swirl alongside her increasing intelligence and naive sexual confidence. And of course there’s the propulsive story itself, which rockets along like a steampunk steamtrain.
The evening’s violet-tinged mouth played off the chartreuse yellow of the tulle dress. Goodwin enhanced Stone’s freckles for an ultra-natural effect, while the handmade Louis Vuitton choker dialed up the glamour.
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A documentary about the extraordinary history of London’s Scala cinema, a repertory movie theatre in the dark heart of 1980s King’s Cross, transformed by manager (and now film producer) Stephen Woolley into an alt-cinephile paradise crossed with a grindhouse den, with groundbreaking selections of LGBTQ+ movies, martial arts, pulp classics, auteur gems and fabulously scuzzy all-nighters.
5 January
From the moment it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Poor Things has been the movie everyone wants to see and no one can stop talking about. Yorgos Lanthimos’ strange and sumptuous story of Bella Baxter, a reanimated woman with the brain of a child discovering the world, in all its wonder and horror, offers a lot to contemplate and even more to look at, imagining a gothic 19-century Europe filtered through a dreamy steampunk lens. At the forefront of this vision are the clothes, a concoction that melds Victorian tradition with space-age futurism. The talent behind the wardrobe, costume designer Holly Waddington, spoke to her star Emma Stone about how she pulled it off.
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From, Saint Laurent using the well-known British supermodel Kate Moss as the protagonist of the video, passing through Ermenegildo Zegna and the presentation of his UOMO fragrance, or the most recent one, this week, HEARTBEAT by Louis Vuitton, (made by Nicolas Loir) everyone wants to use the well-known house on the island of Capri, built in 1938 with the plans of the Italian architect Adalberto Libera.
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