Big in pictures too
Earlier this year our local film society screened Yorgos Lanthimos’s gothic mash-up Poor Things (2023) to a packed house. The audience seemed to love it – in an exit poll it earned a 91 per cent approval rating – though a few people voiced misgivings about the hypersexualized representation of its female protagonist, Bella Baxter (Emma Stone). By far the most vociferous and negative response, however, came from a writer friend of mine, who railed against the film’s "betrayal" of its source ma...
