Bugonia Review: A Satirical Fury
Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a unique blend of corporate satire, eco-horror, and cosmic paranoia. The film features Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the movie is a reimagining of the 2003 Korean cult film Save the Green Planet!. It brings the original's energy into the age of internet-fuelled delusion.
The premise is both absurd and eerily plausible: a deluded beekeeper kidnaps the CEO of a pesticide empire, believing it's an alien plot to annihilate humankind.
- Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
- Rating: ***1/2
- Where: In theatres
The film unfolds as a torture thriller, philosophical chess match, and tragicomic fable about the planet's destruction and accountability.
It's a bizarrely elegant cocktail of satire, horror, and paranoia, served cold with Lanthimos's trademark deadpan.
Author's summary: Bugonia is a satirical film with a unique blend of genres.
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