Last year, Yorgos Lanthimos directed a dark comedy about a woman named Bella who was assembled from the body of an adult and the brain of a fetus in a Frankenstein-like surgery and who went on to fuck her way to self-actualization across a fantastical Europe.
What sets it apart is the way that Bella, the wiped-blank heroine played by Emma Stone, rejects the rules and strictures she's told she has to abide by as she speedruns her way from child to woman of the world.
The frankness of the sexual content - which begins with Bella's innocent explorations of her own body, progresses to her voracious pursuit of what she calls 'furious jumping' with a louche lawyer played by Mark Ruffalo, and eventually brings her to work in a Parisian brothel.
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