Heute im Kino Intimes

This queer, sexed-up noir will rock your world: Love Lies Bleeding doesn’t have time for a slow burn. It’s a movie that comes in hot and leaves in a molten blaze of glory.

A jaw-dropping, gruesome psychosexual thriller: Love Lies Bleeding’s total lack of filter is its greatest strength. It’s the sort of film you instinctively want to tuck under a mattress: hot, nasty and mouth-wateringly disreputable, this is cinema with nothing to lose.

Reuniting with writer Efthimis Filippou, the spirit king of the Greek Weird Wave has produced a profoundly puzzling, dizzyingly disturbing and dark-hearted set of loosely-connected stories which manage to be discordantly amusing and strangely exhilarating – a cinematic salt-rub.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his nihilistic, sicko ways; a sex-and-cruelty-packed film that had Cannes cheering for its unapologetic bizarreness... It’s a movie that laughs in the face of a happy ending, refusing to let you get too comfortable. It is evil in the best way.

Emma Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance in Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy: Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement.

Das Aufregendste, was es seit langer Zeit im Kino zu sehen gab: In dem fantastischen Film erweckt Schauspielerin Emma Stone eine roboterhafte Frauenkreatur meisterhaft zum Leben. Ein Wunder der Selbstfindung.

Stuffed with rude delights, spry wit, radical fantasy and breathtaking design elements, the movie is a feast. And Emma Stone gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about.

POOR THINGS is the best film of Lanthimos’ career and already feels like an instant classic, mordantly funny, whimsical and wacky, unprecious and unpretentious, filled with so much to adore that to try and parse it all here feels like a pitiful response to the film’s ambitions.

It’s an alchemic combination, this continuing collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone, a working relationship that started with THE FAVOURITE... Two talents that could hardly be described as risk-averse in the first place, together they unleash in each other an extra level of uninhibited artistic daring that, one suspects, must be rooted in an uncommon degree of mutual trust.