Bugonia Review: Emma Stone & Alicia Silverstone's Film Buzzes With Satirical Fury
Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a bizarrely elegant cocktail of corporate satire, eco-horror, and cosmic paranoia.
- Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
- Where: In theatres
- Rating: ***1/2
The film is a reimagining of the 2003 Korean cult film Save the Green Planet!, with a premise that is both absurd and eerily plausible: a deluded beekeeper kidnaps the CEO of a pesticide empire he believes is an alien plot.
What unfolds is part torture thriller, part philosophical chess match, and part tragicomic fable about who’s really destroying the planet, and why we insist on believing in aliens rather than accountability.
Author's summary: Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a satirical film.
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