The whimsical and surrealistic film, co-starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, is an instant awards season favorite.
follows Bella , a young Victorian woman who has been crudely reanimated by a mad scientist following her suicide. Regaining her footing in the world, she runs off with a debauched lawyer on a surrealistic odyssey of self-discovery and liberation. The film, which Stone also produced alongside Lanthimos, is set for a U.S. release from Searchlight Pictures on Dec. 8.
“It’s weird, isn’t it? Why is there no sex in movies anymore?” Lanthimos said when asked how he and Stone handled the film’s frank and sometimes absurdist depictions of sex. “It’s a shame Emma can’t be here to speak about it, because it’s weird that all of it will be coming from me,” he added.
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