Wild comedy ‘Poor Things’ wins top prize at Venice Festival

  VENICE --- "Poor Things," a gothic, sex-charged comedy directed by Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, the British-made film wowed festival-goers with its zany story of a woman reanimated after suicide by a mad doctor who replaces her brain with that of her unborn baby. Childlike but with an adult's body, Stone's character Bella Baxter grows increasingly independent and excited by her sexual experimentations as she undertakes a voyage of self-discovery through a surreal version of 19th century Europe. "The central character is Bella Baxter, an i...Keep on reading: Wild comedy ‘Poor Things’ wins top prize at Venice Festival

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