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OUT 12 JANUARY CINEMAS

DIRECTOR Yorgos Lanthimos STARRING Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael SCREENPLAY Tony McNamara DISTRIBUTOR Searchlight RUNNING TIME 141 mins

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s second collaboration mirrors 2018 awards darling , inasmuch as it’s another feminist period dramedy charting the emancipatory journey of a girl of little means. But isn’t as concerned with of sorts, it explores and challenges the way society dictates and stifles female behaviour. Lanthimos also tackles our own prurience and the seemingly monstrous concept of a woman without shame.

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