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“…the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit.”

—Jonathan Coe reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS in the London Review of Books, 8 October 1992

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel POOR THINGS (1992) has won the Golden Lion at the 2023 La Biennale di Venezia. In a series of recordings made in the last year of his life, Gray talks about the novel & reads extracts – & discusses works which influenced him, from Thomas Love Peacock’s NIGHTMARE ABBEY (1818) to Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

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Hamaguchi gets his Silver lion too & then...

Lanthimos gets Leone d'oro!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
begins its ride...

Everything as expected 😄

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It's the Frankenstein / Pygmalion riff, , is it not?
Annoyingly, can't find my copy of the book now.
Thinking more on the prospect of the film my problem boils down to: Alasdair Gray liked people, you can see that in his work even when it gets weird. Yorgis Lanthimos.... not... so... much. I've never seen a glimmer of that in his films. Even the one I enjoyed, The Favourite, it's probably the case that I was OK with the horribleness because the characters were royals so it was less bothersome. (Can't be repelled by anti-human sentiment when you don't see the characters as human :nosetap:)

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Manish Vij · @vij
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Miss Koula 💋 · @misskoula
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People are yammering about how is like Frankenstein. As a promoter of obscure TV, may I suggest that it's more like every time Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) got reborn on .

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scheint in Venedig jedenfalls schon mal extrem gut anzukommen. Erste Hoffnung fürs Winterkino.

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Fahrenheit · @fahrenheit
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Filmy i seriale:
»„Poor Things”«

Tym razem coś spod znaku Frankenstein's Monster była kobietą, czyli trailer komedii romantycznej/SF/opowieści gotyckiej/historii emancypacyjnej "Poor Things" opartej na powieści Alasdaira Gray'a. Reżyseruje Yorgos Lanthimos ("Faworyta"). W rolach głównych: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef i Jerrod Carmichael.
Premiera 28 września 2023.
fahrenheit.net.pl/film/poor-th

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La Pesanta · @lapesanta
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Avanç de POOR THINGS (2023) d'en Yorgos Lanthimos.
Basada en la novel·la de d'Alasdair Gray, amb molta influència del FRANKENSTEIN (1818) de la Mary Shelley.

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