Synopsis
Reanimated by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs away with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents, freeing herself of the restrictive Victorian norms of her creator's home.
The Review
Lanthimos has always been fascinated by people who don't yet know the rules they're supposed to follow, and Bella Baxter is the purest version of that idea he's made. Emma Stone commits to the physical comedy of a mind developing in real time without ever making it a gimmick, the performance earns every strange, funny, unsettling beat. The production design escalates from black-and-white Gothic house to candy-colored fantasy Europe like the film itself is growing up alongside her. It's a movie about appetite in every sense of the word, and it trusts the audience to sit with how uncomfortable that can be.