‘Poor Issues’ Kicks Off Award Season Marketing campaign With Triumphant Venice Bow

Yorgos Lanthimos, who wowed on the Venice Movie Competition 5 years in the past with The Favorite, was welcomed again like a returning prince together with his new movie Poor Issues.

The Venice crowd gave a hero’s welcome to Lanthimos, who attended the Venice premiere Friday evening with out his solid — which incorporates Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef — who have been unable to attend because of the SAG-AFTRA strike. (Poor Issues is a studio title and will probably be launched by Disney’s Searchlight.)

However the heat reception right here may mark the movie for better issues, much like the arc adopted by The Favorite, which debuted on the Lido in 2018, successful two awards — one of the best actress Volpi Cup for star Olivia Coleman and a particular jury prize for Lanthimos — and springboarding into pole place for that yr’s awards season.

There may be already main awards buzz for Lanthimos’ newest, not least for Stone, who offers a fearless and hilarious efficiency as Bella Baxter, a younger girl who tries to commit suicide solely to be re-animated, Frankenstein-like, by a clearly unhinged surgeon and scientist, performed by Dafoe, one other function with awards potential. Stone additionally produced Poor Issues, alongside Lanthimos.

Ruffalo, taking part in a caddish English gentleman with debauchery on his thoughts who entices Bella to comply with him on a sex-filled surrealistic journey of self-discovery, was a favourite among the many press who screened the movie earlier at the moment.

Poor Issues is about for a U.S. launch from Searchlight on Dec. 8.