OPINION - Poor Things is a riot of sexual surprises with a startling child-like lead. But a feminist film? No.

I really wasn’t looking forward to seeing . I’ve always been quite taken in by Yorgos Lanthinmos’ surreal cinema – the blindfolds and juddering movements, and razor-sharp observational dark comedy – but something about ’s pale startled face under those bushy dark in the poster was too close to the bone for my liking. I’d read the reviews, jousting it out as to whether a film, made by a straight, white, middle aged man, about the sexual awakening of a child-brained creature could ever be