Rather, it’s an attempt to wake us up, to clue us into the behaviors and violences we replicate over and over again, even when we think we aren’t. And on that front alone, Poor Things is a success.

The score is brilliant. It absolutely captures the kind of semi-steam punk, fantastical, mythological, Frankestinian... all that stuff. And yet at the heart of it, there is an emotional story...

Bella’s appetite for novelty is reflected in film-making that evokes a similar sense of wonder and discovery in the audience.

Poor Things is a sweeter film that one might expect from Lanthimos, but it is not without his trademark grotesquerie.