Bugonia, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
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Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbis star in the latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Yorgos Lanthimos and writer Will Tracy discuss Bugonia's music choices, filming in VistaVision, and the director's much-needed break from filming.
Jennifer Aniston's face makes a surprise appearance in Emma Stone's fourth film with Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos
Bugonia is a movie that, once you see it, you’ll want to watch it again almost immediately. The films of director Yorgos Lanthimos are often like that — weird, rewatchable, immaculate—but Bugonia is different. It’s more pertinent. More intense. And more surprising than maybe all of his previous work combined. Which is saying something.
The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His movies have perhaps inspired the most “What?!” reactions of the last decade, partly because they’ve tried so hard to do so.
His latest, Bugonia, reunites him with Emma Stone and writer Will Tracy ( The Menu ). It’s an English adaptation of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, centered around two cousins (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who kidnap a CEO (Stone) they think is an alien plotting Earth’s downfall.
Yorgos Lanthimos has admitted that, after directing three films in three years, he's at breaking point, and he plans to take time off from making movies.
Want to see Emma Stone’s new film “Bugonia” before its wide release on Oct. 24? The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film is having an early screening in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. However, there’s a catch: in order to attend the screening at the Culver Theater on Monday night,