Yorgos Lanthimos finds heights
One thing is to be at the highest levels, it is another to distinguish you. With his 2024 Cannes film, Types of kindnessYorgos Lanthimos has assured his place as the first director – with the male interpretation prize for Jesse Plemons, but he delivered a film to the confused scenario, indulging in images whose violence would have canceled the subject, especially since the latter took on a cryptic dimension. This year 2025, in Venice where she Bugonia Complete for the golden lion, the Greek director finds a slight consistency to narrate and stage a black comedy, the successful hybridization of the paranoid thriller and science fiction.
Remake of the 2003 south-coreen film Save the green planet!We follow Teddy’s bugonia, a marginal and conspirator paranoid that removes a powerful CEO, Michelle (Emma Stone again exceptional). He is the head of a pharmaceutical company that Teddy is responsible for his mother’s serious illness. Convinced that Michelle is a “Andromédienne”, a member of an extraterrestrial species infiltrated on earth to dominate humanity, kidnapping and torture so that he admits his true nature and establishes contact with his “emperor” to negotiate their departure from the earth.
A dramatic jewel comedy
Bugonia It is, with its applied and brutal treatment of contemporary issues: conspiracy and False newsSolitude and capitalism – A surprising storm of emotions. We laugh as much as it breaks, the staging and the dialogues that offer a double permanent reading of every situation. We even move when, in the third act, the fantastic dives and reverses the moral line of the film. Without going into details, which was so probably it becomes largely unlikely. But, in the manner of Lobster OR Poor creaturesNothing is impossible in Lanthimos cinema when it completely brakes its subject.
This critical and generous fairy tale in his comedy of the human condition affects the eye of the bull. And it is sublimated by the extraordinary performance of Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone. He still confirms after finding with Yorgos Lanthimos, the director able to allow him a great performance. The two actors abandon themselves to the follies of their director with a higher seriousness and investment, for a memorable incarnation of the evils of our time. While the competition of the Venice exhibition has just arrived in the medium term, nothing has yet been played. But Bugonia For the moment part of the most serious contenders for the golden lion.
Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos, in cinemas the November 26, 2025. Above the trailer.
Source: Cine Serie
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