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, shaken with his trademark deadpan and served cold.
A reimagining of the 2003 Korean cult film Save the Green Planet!, it transports the original’s feverish energy into our age of internet-fuelled delusion.
The premise is both absurd and eerily plausible: a deluded beekeeper, Teddy (Jesse Plemons), kidnaps Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), the sleek CEO of a pesticide empire he believes is an alien plot to annihilate humankind.
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.
Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a bizarrely elegant cocktail of corporate satire, eco-horror, and cosmic paranoia.
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone. Rating: ***1/2
Author's summary: Bugonia is a satirical film with a unique blend of genres.