Movie Review: ‘Bugonia’ is a darkly comic gut punch

Movie Review: 'Bugonia' is a darkly comic gut punch

The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane.

His latest, "Bugonia," is thrillingly, if tragically, tied to our reality. It might even be his best film.

Though I’ve been apprehensive about the flamboyant severity of Lanthimos’ movies, I found "Bugonia," a chamber-piece gut punch, hard to shake.

For starters, it’s difficult to resist any movie with a line in it like:

“There’s Andromedan code all over your Instagram.

Author's summary: Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia" is a dark comedy.

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Hartford Courant Hartford Courant — 2025-10-23

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