“Emma had to have no shame about her body, nudity, engaging in those scenes,” said Yorgos Lanthimos. “And she understood that right away.”
. A magical mélange of sci-fi, Gothic fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and Frankenstein tale, it follows Bella Baxter , a young woman with child who flings herself from a bridge. Her barely-living body is recovered by a mad scientist , who experiments on her — keeping her alive by transplanting the brain of her infant child into her, giving Bella the body of a woman and the mind of an infant.
So, Bella stomps around the scientist’s picturesque London mansion, smashing plates, making a “wee” on the floor, and generally raising a ruckus. One day, as Bella is in the throes of discovering her sexuality — by furiously masturbating whenever she can — a caddish, dim-witted lawyer steals her away to Lisbon. But he’s in for much more than he bargained for, as Bella is learning day by day that freedom is paramount.
. “It’s a shame that Emma cannot be here with us to speak more about it because it’s weird that it would be coming all from me. First of all, it was an intrinsic part of the novel itself — her freedom about everything, including sexuality. And secondly, it was very important for me to not make a film which was going to be prude because that would be completely betraying the main character.”
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