Pauvres Créatures

My view is that you should watch this movie with a mind open to fantasy, sexuality and ignorance.

It is a fun movie to watch. The cinematics are imaginative and fantastical. In contrast, the plot is in stark opposition to the magical scenery which, gives this film an interesting allure.

Mark Ruffalo gives it 100% and I give him a 10.

Emma Stone is amazingly venerable and strong. Of Course.

Willem Dafoe looks horrid, but he is a necessary evil in his role.

There is a good amount of sexual content but it is done is a very, matter of fact, way. There is nudity of men and women so if that is not what you want to see, you may want to pass.

Clearly a lot of people enjoyed this grotesque movie, but it wasn't for me. Some of the scenes in it made me feel sick, and maybe they were supposed to, but it seemed unnecessary. Don't even get me started on how pretentious the movie was.

I also found this movie very frustrating because the acting was good, the sets and costuming were good, and some scenes used striking cinematography. These things all made me feel like I should've liked the movie, but I don't. It could have been put to much better use.

The sex and nudity is beyond gratuitous. I'm usually not bothered by sex scenes in movies, but for this particular film it felt perverted. Maybe the director has a weird fetish.

Ultimately, this film made me want to crack my own head open and pour bleach over my brain. It's one of those movies I'd like to block out. I don't think I'll ever watch anything else by Lanthimos.

I watched the movie without really knowing what to expect. The trailer seemed interesting, I thought the idea was pretty original.

Some characters I could never really warm up to, but maybe that was supposed to be the point. I loved the father-daughter dynamic between Bella and Godwin.

Overall it feels a bit like a fever dream, never knowing what is real and what is just imagination. The cinematography is stunning, very colourful and just beautiful sets and I enjoyed the originality of the camera angles too. The cast did an amazing job, especially Emma Stone really carried the movie, portraying Bella as strange but likeable.

This is a very unusual movie. I enjoyed watching it, even though it felt awkward at times (as promised by the creators and many reviewers). In my opinion, many users who gave it a 1/10, missed the point. For sure, it is a movie for very mature and sophisticated audiences. It contains a lot of ugly truths about the world, so don't watch it if those bother you. (Don't watch it with teenagers, either, wait until they are 20 or 21.) I appreciated the creative direction, cinematography, and Emma Stone's acting talent. The plot covers multiple aspects of privilege and abuse in thought-provoking ways. On a very high level, you could say that it has some similarities to Barbie, but a very different approach. It is almost the anti-Barbie. The contrast between these two 2023 movies is definitely worth a class discussion in some graduate course of film criticism.

I was full of trepidation when seeing The Favourite back in 2018 because I love Yorgos films in his native Greek and I wondered how the weird wave would translate into the English language. The answer is very well. This had been dubbed a feminist Frankenstein and upon viewing I can see why. What's interesting though is Bella creates herself, without giving too much away almost literally creates herself and in the sense she grows with experience. We see countless men try and fail to take ownership of her: control of her body, her mind and mostly her sexuality. I really enjoyed joining her for the adventure and it reminded me of why we should feel wonder at the world, feel compassion for the less fortunate and want to help one another. The aesthetics in this film are really a class apart. We see London, Paris and Lisbon, at once recognisable but also completely altered in the directors imagination. I wouldn't say it's my favourite of Yorgos films but it's very very good.