Movie Review: Poor Things

Yes.

Every single frame of this movie is a delight - even the closing titles. It is an explosion of outrageous colour, extravagant lenses, and delirious shots. Like an Escher woodcut electrified into life.

I adored director Yorgos Lanthimos' earlier film The Lobster - this feel almost like that film was injected with several million more dollars and a sprinkling of psychedelics. This magic is what happens when you give creative people freedom to be as weird as their dare.

As beautiful as it all is, the story is vicious and nasty. It has a slimy and voyeuristic atmosphere which suffuses the sex-scenes, moving them from titillation to pivotal set-pieces in the development of the characters.

This isn't an easy film to watch. While it superficially shares a garish palette with Barbie and a sceptical view of science with Oppenheimer, it is so far away from those two mainstream films that I am stunned it exists.

It is impossible not to be constantly entertained - and continually horrified - as the film progresses. It is visceral fun.