“Poor creatures”: strange settings of the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos

It has been described as a feminist version of “Frankenstein”. The Greek filmmaker’s new film hits theaters on January 17, 2024 Yorgos Lanthimos So much intrigue that it divided moviegoers. pitch? Bella — played by Emma Stone — is a young woman who is Dr. She was revived after Godwin Baxter transplanted an infant brain into her. Flying with her lover, she explores the workings of the world and society across five continents. A story of women’s liberation and emancipation, adapted from the novel Poor things

By Scottish author Alasdair Gray, published in 1992.

Between futuristic elements and nods to the Victorian style, the plot of “Poor Creatures” plunges us into a dystopian world realized through particularly fictional settings. If Yorgos Lanthimos moves his heroine from Paris to Lisbon, all of the film’s settings were in fact recreated in a studio in Budapest. At the helm, two production designers have created a world from scratch at the crossroads of gothic and fantasy, full of crazy details. Shona Heath, one of the production designers, sums it up this way: “ We always tried to imagine that the story took place in the past, but with a vision of the future

” Thus we move from baroque architecture in the city to a futuristic environment with cable cars and flying ships, in a slick game that is equally SteampunkA genre that appears in literature that mixes 19th-century aesthetics with elements of science fiction.

A perfect and surreal universe that is also reflected in the protagonist’s stunning costumes. It was to costume designer Holly Waddington that the multi-award winning director entrusted the task of conceiving the spooky and whimsical silhouettes. Here, the fashion serves the story as much. This is particularly illustrated by the heroine’s costume, which transforms with her liberation.