Director Yorgos Lanthimos poses for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of ‘Poor Issues’ through the 80th version of the Venice Movie Competition in Venice, Italy
| Photograph Credit score: Vianney Le Caer
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Frankensteinian black comedy Poor Issues screened to an encouraging response on the 80th Venice Worldwide Movie Competition.
In keeping with a report in Deadline.com, the movie obtained a 10-minute-plus standing ovation after the screening amid chants of ‘Yorgos, Yorgos’.
Nevertheless, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo – the celebs of Poor Issues – couldn’t be in attendance owing to the SAG-AFTRA strikes. In keeping with the union guidelines, actors are forbidden from attending premieres and award exhibits or selling their initiatives through the strikes.
Poor Issues is tailored from a 1992 fantasy/sci-fi novel of the identical identify by Alasdair Grey. Stone portrays Bella Baxter, a younger lady from Victorian London introduced again to life by an unorthodox scientist (Dafoe).
“Free from the prejudices of her occasions, she grows steadfast in her goal to face for equality and liberation,” reads the movie’s synopsis.
Early critiques of Poor Issues have been optimistic. Moreover being pegged as a probable Oscar contender, the movie has generated buzz over its unreserved intercourse and masturbation scenes.
“Why is there no intercourse in motion pictures anymore?” Lanthimos jokingly questioned on the movie’s press convention in Venice.