Bella Baxter, the crazy nymphomaniac antithesis of 'Barbie', is the feminist we needed

Bella Baxter is destined to be a character as loved as she is hated, a new

for the culture wars for her lustful feminism.

Baxter, protagonist of

, has no filter and does with her body whatever he wants.

In some way, the character played by Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos' film works as the B-side of

Belle is also a toy who one day discovers her powers of flesh and blood, a happy, dysfunctional and enjoyable young Frankenstein who sets out - like Pinocchio or Dorothy in

- to discover the magic of her body and mind. life.

In the race for the most feminist character of the year, Bella has ousted the ubiquitous dumb—or stereotypical—blonde thanks to her reinterpretation of another much more interesting stereotype, that of the crazy-nymphomaniac.

A scene from 'Poor Creatures'.

Another issue is whether Lanthimos' film is as transgressive as it wants to sell itself or just a very sweetened Gothic tale.

Her baroque style and extravagance have earned her the Golden Lion of Venice and 11 nominations for the Hollywood Academy Awards, including best actress for her muse.

Bella's father, Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe, has created his monster with the body of a woman who has committed suicide and a brain that holds the key to her innocence.

An abused woman who has the possibility of starting again from scratch, freed from all the corsets of society that has turned her into a wreck.

The film, which is based fairly closely on Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel of the same name, is Stone and Lanthimos' second collaboration after

.

Like Margot Robbie with

, Stone is the producer of a film made for her total brilliance and although her orthopedic movements can end up being as annoying as Barbie's scared-faced smile

they also have that dysfunctional poetry of John Galliano's last show for Margiela.

Stone takes up the myth created by Mary Shelley and, hand in hand with a fabulous costume for her little Frankenstein, eager for life and sex, stands with her expressive power as a new symbol of female nonconformity.