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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is a young English woman brought back to life by a mad, Victor-Frankenstein-like scientist, Dr Godwin "God" Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Starting life anew as a baby in a woman's body but growing mentally extremely rapidly, Bella soon grows tired of living under the care of her "father" and sets off to discover the world and herself, when a rakish fop by the name of Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo) whisks her away on what he promises to be the adventure of a lifetime.
Look, let's just get this out of the way. Being a film by the notoriously idiosyncratic but highly celebrated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Killing of a Sacred Deer), Poor Things is decidedly not for everyone. It is very, and I mean very, weird, as in utterly bat-dung crazy from top to bottom. And it's not rated 18 for nothing. It has enough coarse language, gore, and, most especially, sex and nudity to make the head of even a more moderate, modern prude explode. It's a trippy adult fairy tale with the emphasis on adult.
