Emma Stone’s new film Pobres Criaturas, which will be released in Portuguese cinemas on January 25, 2024, has a crucial part of the narrative set in Lisbon, with a slight obsession with Pastéis de Nata and a performance by fado singer Carmiño.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the film begins in black and white and switches to color as Emma Stone’s character, Bella Baxter, begins her journey. First stop – Lisbon.
“The world is so different when it’s black and white than when it has a color palette,” the director said at a conference about the film that Lusa attended. “I thought it made sense to shoot the first part before she went on the road, in black and white.”
The Lisbon in Color in the film is a fantasy version with flying trams and exaggerated contrasts. Bella Baxter, discovering the world for the first time, finds the Portuguese capital an explosion of sensations.
“There are a lot of things that expand it,” Emma Stone said at the conference. “Animals, food, dancing. Music, singing, fado,” he said.
During one of her tours in Lisbon, Bella Baxter stops and enjoys Carminho’s fado, which he sings by the window while playing his Portuguese guitar. The fado singer attended the film’s premiere in New York, where she performed under the gaze of co-star Emma Stone and spoke with Taylor Swift.
“What a pride to bring Fado and the Portuguese language to such a special place, to share these moments with a unique director and an amazing team,” Carmiño wrote on his Instagram account after the performance.
The character also discovers a passion for quiches, which she eats until she becomes ill.
The film received good reviews and is considered a contender for several Oscar nominations, after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Emma Stone stars alongside Willem Dafoe (Dr. Godwin Baxter), Mark Ruffalo (Duncan Wedderburn) and Ramy Youssef (Max McCandles). It’s an “incredible” cast, the actress said, with the role including many sex scenes and the physical portrayal of a child.
“Bella is pure joy and curiosity and doesn’t feel guilty or experience trauma,” the actress said. “It’s hard to find an adult who hasn’t been through a lot and doesn’t have a Pavlovian reaction or certain judgments.”
Lanthimos added that “this character is unlike anything we’ve ever seen.”
This is Emma Stone’s second feature film with Yorgos Lanthimos, following 2018’s The Favorite.
“I didn’t even think twice. This is my favorite character,” the actress described. “What about Yorgos? It was a very easy decision.”
The director, known for his strange and fantastic stories, spent twelve years transforming Alasdair Gray’s award-winning book (Woeful Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless, MD, Scottish Health Specialist), published in 1992, into a film . The adaptation was written by Tony McNamara, and the film from Searchlight Pictures will be released in Europe in January 2024.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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