Poor Things

Bella Baxter is rebuilt and then educated by leaving the house. Lanthimos and Robbie Ryan move from black-and-white rooms into cities that look built for the shot. Emma Stone plays the acceleration: a child’s sentences, then a person’s refusals. Mark Ruffalo’s Duncan expects to be the tour guide and is not. The Searchlight trailer leans on the dance and the ship. The film keeps asking who owns a body that was assembled by someone else.