Bugonia

Bugonia is another brilliantly bonkers nihilistic head trip from the great Yorgos Lanthimos. The film centers on Teddy (Jesse Plemons) a beekeeper and conspiracy theorist utterly convinced that corporate CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) is an alien who is trying to bring about a sort of colony collapse on a global scale, with his more level headed but mentally disabled cousin Donnie (Aidan Delbis in a star making performance) he proceeds to abduct Michelle and force her to help him broker peace with her so called alien emperor, is Teddy merely insane

or is Michelle really from another planet? Nobody makes films quite like Lanthimos, some would say that’s a good thing, i am not one of those people. Lanthimos falls into a small group of film artists who the prospect of a new film inspires great excitement in me. Bugonia is a genuinely strange and often funny and horrifying film much like this director’s other work but there is a genuine core of melancholy and bleakness here that is a bit unusual with the seeming suggestion that our world is dying, we killed it and it’s too late to save it, while that is very dark Lanthimos finds a way to still filter his view of humanity’s downfall through his own gonzo lens. Indeed nobody makes films like Yorgos Lanthimos and thank god for that. 

I Give It 5 Stars!!!