Director Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his weirdest film yet – a mad-scientist story with endless sex scenes and garish design. It's outrageous and hilarious, writes Nicholas Barber.
Adapted from Alasdair Gray's award-winning Scottish novel, the film tells the story of Bella Baxter , a young woman who kills herself by jumping off Tower Bridge in London, only to have her body revived by a surgeon, Godwin , who puts a baby's brain in her skull. Her mental development fast-forwards at a prodigious rate, but she still has toddler-like tantrums, and she totters around Godwin's mansion like a stiff-limbed clockwork toy: the wide-eyed Stone is perfectly cast.
Godwin himself was operated on in similar ways by his own father, and now has the crazy-paving face of Frankenstein's monster – although Dafoe manages to be touchingly expressive, anyway. Godwin sees Bella half as a fascinating experiment, half as a cherished daughter. Meanwhile, his naive assistant, Max , falls in love with the innocent, unfiltered Bella.
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