This intervention aims to present the case of the film Poor things! by Greek director Lanthimos as a narrative contribution to a semiotic reflection around genders and a gendered semiosis. In particular, it is to observe how the text reasons about the feminine and a performativity of the feminine, which are investigated under different respects in the story of Bella Baxter.A creature of a novel Dr. Frankenstein, the protagonist is born as an impossible figure, disrupting first of all the categorical order: she is mother and daughter of herself, she is adult and child, she is dead and alive, she is a surgical artifice and a biological principle. She is then a monster, but she is a (bella) Venus whose feminine is explained in the eroticization of a coming-of-age tale.In a journey that starts from home and returns home, there is the staging of a female unfamiliar (unheimlich) that expresses itself on different levels: from the sexual dimension, as a strictly biological framework that decides roles and possibilities for action, to the level of what is social, political and cultural; from proxemics to the discursive dimension, up to the dance.The analysis of the film, in the evolution of the character and the interpretation of Emma Stone, between narrative projection and actorly interpretation, offers us an opportunity to reason about the value articulations and conversions that govern the transition to the manifestation of a gender identity, its different expressions and the development, in theory, of specific descriptive categories.