Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)

[MichaelB]

Well, "child abuse footage" is putting it a bit strong, but "actual teenagers visibly in the same shot as sexual activity" is clearly...

...well, the sort of thing you seek legal advice about in post-production!

Although whether or not that's legally iffy per se is an interesting question, since there was no actual contact at any time - but since it didn't make the slightest difference to the dramatic point of the scene to have the teenagers and the sexual activity in clearly different shots, it's easy to see why they took that decision.

[swo17]

I'm just glad to know the child abuse did in fact happen, even if I have to put the pieces together in my mind

[Rupert Pupkin]

The film is available in 1080 and 2160 - The scene with Damien Bonnard is there so I think that the movie is uncut.
There is a 2160 (like The Favorite) WEB release; so why no UHD/Blu-Ray ? Perhaps in France, later ? Or could there be another US UHD release later ?

[jheez]

It’s owned by Disney in the US and UK, so we’re lucky to get anything physical at all

[Rupert Pupkin]

So, despite the 2160 WEB release; this is only a Blu-Ray release which is announced (as I can see) in the US.
If the UK version is still cut; then we still have the German release (perhaps a UHD) or France for a UHD (if we are lucky; I doubt it).
I preferred far away "The Favorite" (but "Poor Things" has its moments); the cinematography of "the Favorite" deserved a UHD.

[swo17]

If the UK version is still cut

This is not a thing. The original story was debunked. There's only one cut circulating of this film

[therewillbeblus]

Noticed a detail I missed my first two theatrical viewings:

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When Bella runs her hand over the paper Victoria, her former 'self', had scribbled in at the manor, and it just says "fuck" everywhere - such a touching, sad moment, and the only real exposure Bella has to a relic of her 'mother'. Feeling sorrow for one's former self (or younger 'parts' we keep with us) and gratitude for their current self simultaneously, as reflected in the dinner scene just after, is Bella's 'final' evolution we see - appropriately the least obvious (perhaps the only stage not overstated) and yet astutely placed as it's one of the more mature challenges one can attempt to juggle and maintain psychologically.

[MichaelB]

If the UK version is still cut

This is not a thing. The original story was debunked. There's only one cut circulating of this film

Not so much debunked as excitably misinterpreted.

[therewillbeblus]

There's no Lanthimos thread and this isn't "in production" yet, but in recent interviews he's given more details on his attempts to adapt Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which sounds to be an ostensibly even less-"adaptable" novel than Gray's!