Poor Things

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen - A podcast by Maya Gurantz & Rebecca Cohen

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Depending on whom you ask, Academy award winner Poor Things is either a feminist masterpiece about an empowered woman, or a male fantasy about a baby-minded fuck toy. Maya and Rebecca attempt to bridge the gap, asking the really important questions: Why is Yorgos Lanthimos so obsessed with old-timey whorehouses? Is this quirky visual style more or less irritating when Wes Anderson does it? And is a critique of men the same thing as a feminist movie?