Furious Jumping

Yorgos Lanthimos had yet to direct a film in English when he went to Scotland to meet with Alasdair Gray about his 1992 novel Poor Things. It was probably early 2014, (Lanthimos didn’t specify in an interview with Vogue this May), just five years after his second feature-length film, Dogtooth, stunned Cannes and Los Angeles. Lanthimos recalls having trouble keeping up with the prolific writer and painter, who died in 2019 at age eighty-five—“He was so energetic and excited,” Lanthimos said—as they walked through Glasgow together.