Tony McNamara goes from ‘The Great’ to the fantastical with ‘Poor Things’

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things has been described as everything from a “vast absurdist odyssey” to a “story rich in contemporary currency”.

However, for the film’s Australian writer Tony McNamara, it can be summed up simply as “a funny film about humans”.

McNamara reunites with his collaborator from the Oscar-winning The Favourite for Poor Things, an adaptation of Scottish author Alasdair Gray’s Victorian-set satire.

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