The director would prefer not to get into “an analytic conversation” about his Oscar-nominated film.
So does Bella’s self-empowerment meanPoor Thingsis a feminist fable?
DirectorYorgos Lanthimosprefers not to use such labels.
Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of ‘Poor Things’.Atsushi Nishijima/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
“I feel confident about the script.
So that means it conveys a lot of things, I think, to intelligent people.
So there’s no need to discuss it further.”
I attempt to make films more open than that."
“At that time, women wouldn’t have had their hair loose and down like that.
It just would not have been proper to do that.”
Her costumes, too, reflect Bella’s independence.
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