La Bugonia

Lanthimos strikes again! And it's another masterpiece. Black Comedy, Satire, Social critic on internet conspiracy theories, weird, absurd, witty, bloody and last but not least a nihilistic comment on mankind working on its own extinction.

And what an intelligent screenplay it is! And all in all an exciting and entertaining movie with surprising twists. How many times can you leave the theatre feeling refreshed and inspired, because you know you have just watched something you have never seen on a screen before? Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons deliver great performances, on top of their skills. It's such a pleasure to watch actors with their depth and intensity.

I loved the whole experience, it's a brilliant movie, strongly recommended.

Not for everyone, but definitely for me! To start, the acting was unbelievable from the three main characters. Emma Stone was amazing, and Jesse Plemons and the actor who plays his cousin are just outstanding. The hair and makeup were very creative - from bald on Emma, to HELP - PLEASE GET THIS MAN SOME SHAMPOO! The story was the fun part - who doesn't like twists, turns, ups, downs and inside outs??? This was just a fun movie that made me want to see it a couple more times, just like Poor Things. BRAVO!

London Film Festival review

For a moment BUGONIA is like watching "Misery" or "Funny Games" through the lens of 1950s Hollywood dystopian paranoia films. Yorgos follows the sadistic path he started in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Kinds Of Kindness playing with Kubrick-like visuals and sounds to deliver a fairly straightforward cynical fable until it's not.

Emma and Jesse explore a violent theatricality and beautiful expressionism to great success. Both are harrowing and spectacular (this is Plemons best part ever) but are also limited by the linearity of it all. The last act reconnects Lanthimos with his subversive, unpredictable and absurd poetry but I guess Media, Politics and Truths are this year's true topics. Not surprising this film shares common grounds with Eddington.

I wanted to love it but I just really really liked it.

The film turned out no worse than the Korean version, which is already impressive on its own.

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons once again deliver outstanding performances.

What we get is a sharp satire that makes you wonder: maybe conspiracy believers are simply broken by the real world? Maybe that's why they retreat into fantasies, searching for secrets that don't actually exist, just to justify their own problems?

The ending raises a question: can we ever be as organized as bees? Or are we destined to remain fragmented and harm one another? Does a perfect version of humanity even exist?

Lanthimos once again does not disappoint.

Yorgos Lanthimos is back doing his usual weird thing with Bugonia. It's a remake of Save the Green Planet!, but feels colder and more deliberately uncomfortable.

Emma Stone is chilling as a boss-lady, and Jesse Plemons is incredible as the paranoid conspiracy-theorist unshaken in his conviction that she's an alien. The film is basically just them facing off, a true acting masterclass. It keeps you guessing till the very end.

Do not go in expecting a run-of-the-mill sci-fi action thriller. There are no laser battles or such business here. This is a claustrophobic psychological duel and pitch-black satire. If you want high-octane explosions, look elsewhere. If you don't mind feeling a bit sick and confused by the end, it's for you.