Everything We Know About Emma Stone’s Strange New Movie ‘Poor Things’

Who’s in the cast and crew? The team behind 2018’s The Favourite have clearly staged a reunion. Emma Stone (who also produced Poor Things), writer Tony McNamara, and director Yorgos Lanthimos all worked on both projects.

Apart from Stone, Dafoe, and Ruffalo, the cast is rounded out by Margaret Qualley, Christopher Abbott, Kathryn Hunter, Ramy Youssef, and Jerrod Carmichael.

But like, what’s the vibe? The runtime is two hours and twenty-one minutes, so pee before you find your seat. The movie is rated R “for strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language,” according to Cobble Hill Cinema, so maybe don’t take the kids. It won the prestigious Golden Lion (the top prize) at the Venice Film Festival, where it premiered.

“It’s such a a fairy tale, and a metaphor—clearly, this can’t actually happen—but the idea that you could start anew as a woman, as this body that’s already formed, and see everything for the first time and try to understand the nature of sexuality, or power, or money or choice, the ability to make choices and live by your own rules and not society’s—I thought that was a really fascinating world to go into…it was such a great opportunity to live an entire life that wasn’t marked at all by shame or trauma” Stone told Vogue of her experience playing the character of Bella, who experiences basically an entire lifetime of growth over the course of the film.