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'Poor Things' from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos appears to be the big, early favorite at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The project is a whimsical, adult-themed gothic fable that stars Emma Stone in a potentially career-defining performance. The film brought the house down at its first two press screenings ahead of its world premiere in Italy Friday night, with several moments of dark comedy becoming huge applause lines.

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00:00Good evening.

00:01Her brain and her body are not quite synchronized.

00:05But she's progressing at an accelerated pace.

00:09Poor Things from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos

00:11appears to be the big early favorite

00:13at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

00:16The project is a whimsical, adult-themed gothic fable

00:18that stars Emma Stone

00:19in a potentially career-defining performance.

00:22The film brought the house down

00:23at its first two press screenings

00:25ahead of its world premiere in Italy Friday night,

00:27with several moments of dark comedy becoming huge applause lines.

00:30Poor Things marks the first film from Lanthimos

00:32since The Favourite, which also starred Stone.

00:35The Favourite premiered to raves

00:36at the 2019 Venice Film Festival

00:38and went on to receive Oscar nominations

00:40for Best Picture and Best Director.

00:42Judging by the early reception in Venice,

00:44Poor Things looks certain to launch Lanthimos and Stone

00:47back into the middle of this year's award season conversation.

00:50I am Bella Baxter,

00:52and there is a world to enjoy, circumnavigate.

00:55It is the goal of all to progress.

00:57An adaptation of the novel of the same name,

01:00Poor Things follows Stone's character Bella Baxter,

01:02a young Victorian woman

01:03who has been crudely brought back to life

01:05by a mad scientist, played by Willem Dafoe.

01:08Regaining her footing in the world,

01:09she runs off with a lawyer, played by Mark Ruffalo,

01:12on a surrealistic odyssey of self-discovery and liberation.

01:15While stars Stone, Ruffalo, and Dafoe

01:17were unable to attend the festival

01:19due to the SAG-after strike,

01:21Lanthimos spoke about working with Stone

01:22on the studio title during the film's press conference.

01:25So while we were making The Favourite with Emma,

01:28I already had it in mind,

01:31and I think we had started already working on the script

01:34with Tony McNamara,

01:36and I mentioned it to her

01:37as soon as we finished The Favourite,

01:39and she was extremely excited about the notion

01:42of playing this character,

01:45and she wanted to be involved as much as possible.

01:47So from then on, I kept her in the loop

01:50in, you know, on all the drafts

01:53and all the ideas about designing the world

01:57and all the people that we were going to be working together

02:00and other actors,

02:02and I think that actually helped her a lot

02:06with even her performance as well

02:10because she kept this idea in her mind for a long time.

02:14For much more from the Venice Film Festival,

02:16go to THR.com.

02:17This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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