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Emma Stone’s new movie Poor Things received critical acclaim and eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.
The Frankenstein inspired tale, which has been awarded 100% on review site rotten tomatoes, reunites the actress with Yorgos Lanthimos who directed her in 2018 hit The Favourite.
Emma was lauded for both her acting and bravery in the flick which features a string of graphic sex scenes including one that sees The Oscar winner’s character Bella Baxter pleasuring herself with a piece of fruit.
However neither actress or co-stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo were present to bask in the glory on Friday after skipping the festival amid the SAG-AFTRA strikes.
The Independent wrote in their four-star-review: ‘Stone gives surely the boldest performance of her career so far, in a role that puts upon her heavy physical and psychological demands.’
While Variety’s Clayton Davis hailed the movie as ‘delicious coming-of-age story like no other’ and branded Emma’s performance ‘astonishing’ and even suggested a possible Oscar nomination.
He also revealed that a number of shocked film goers ‘bolted for the exit during some of the racier scenes’.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg agreed with the idea that the movie could land Emma her second Oscar — after she scooped the Best Actress for La La Land in 2016.
Writing: ‘Even Academy members who aren’t crazy about the film will find it hard to not admire the fearless, inventive, no-holds-barred performance of lead actress Stone’.
Meanwhile The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said in his own five-star review that the director’s leading lady ‘takes it to the next career level, or the level beyond the next level’.
Going on to praise her ‘amazing and hilarious’ performance.
EW also praise the actress and said it was ‘unquestionably the performance of Stone’s career’.
‘[She] is a gifted comedic actress and she is an ideal match for Lanthimos’ tone, a strange mix of black comedy, farce, and social commentary’.
