Have you spotted the faces of the stars hidden on the poster for Poor Creatures?

Emma Stone’s failed makeup draws the portraits of her playing partners!

Bella is a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under his protection, she is eager to learn. Eager to discover the world about which she knows nothing, she runs away with Duncan Wedderburn, a skillful and debauched lawyer, and embarks on a dizzying odyssey across continents. Impervious to the prejudices of her time, Bella is determined not to give in on the principles of equality and liberation.

While Poor creatures is released this week in cinemas, a tweet is causing a sensation about its poster. Did you notice that on the poster showing Emma Stone staring at the spectators in close-up, with haphazard makeup, her mismatched lipstick and eye shadow hiding her playing partners?

The image immediately evokes a little girl who would have stolen her mother’s make-up to apply it in secret, but on closer inspection, it also hides a whole symbolism. Once these three faces have been identified, that’s all we see!

On his left eye, we recognize Ramy Youssef, the interpreter of Max McCandless, Dr. Baxter’s assistant. He, played by Willem Dafoe, is placed on the right eye, and on his mouth is Mark Ruffalo, who plays the lawyer mentioned in the synopsis, Duncan Wedderburn (better not to say more so as not to give anything away).

The placement of these three men who each try to influence Bella’s life is obviously not chosen at random, nor undoubtedly the color associated with them. Max is a character responsible for analyzing the behavior of the young woman, a thoughtful approach, cold compared to the thirst for discoveries (notably sexual) symbolized by Duncan, the young woman’s hedonistic play partner. At the heart of this spectrum, Dr. Baxter being the “Creator” of Bella, it makes the link between the two lives of the heroine (her sad past and her future full of promises), as well as between other men or the cold and hot emotions represented by blue and red, which, by mixing them, they give purple.

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Poor Things is obviously not the first film to have promotion of this kind: the original poster of Halloween remained famous for its screaming profile hidden in the hand holding a knife, which we do not see at first glance, for example.

More recently, the official poster ofUnder the Silver Lake, a paranoid thriller led by Andrew Garfield, was full of elements to decipher. In its bubbles a pirate, a guitar, a surfer, a Barbie doll…

Yorgos Lanthimos definitely took care to multiply the disturbing details during the promotion of this film. Because in addition to this poster, there are others with equally confusing concepts, such as the one, also centered on the heroine Bella Baxter. What looks like a classic portrait actually shows his adult body hiding a smaller person, his “mini me” thoughtful. A very uncomfortable image for which the director has the secret: he had already supervised original posters for his previous films, notably for The Lobster and its visuals which respond to each other or the hospital room so cold with the endless ceiling of Killing of the sacred deer.

The Lobster, La Favorite, Poor Creatures: the fascinating posters of Yorgos Lanthimos