Oscar-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things) strikes again in another biting social satire with very long teeth. With a whip-smart screenplay by Will Tracy (The Menu, Succession) and Jang Joon-hwan (based on his film Save the Green Planet!), and starring Emma Stone as a high-powered CEO and Jesse Plemons as one of a pair of conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap her, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying the Earth, the stage is set for a completely bonkers black comedy that finds Lanthimos’ muses Stone and Plemons at the top of their game.
“The characters might be demented, but Bugonia is a crueller, funnier, sharper proposition, more grounded and gritty than the wigged-out weirdness of the film on which it is based.” — Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)
“Lanthimos’ hand is steady as he spins us deeper into chaos, always withholding just enough to keep us questioning what’s real.” — Maxwell Rabb, The Chicago Reader
directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos
written by
Jang Joon-hwan, Will Tracy
Jang Joon-hwan, Will Tracy
with
Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Alicia Silverstone
Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Alicia Silverstone
country
Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, United States
Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, United States