Since his 2015 breakthrough The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of Hollywood’s stranger indie darlings, known for injecting macabre tales with the adrenaline shot of star power, often in the form of Emma Stone.

Bugonia, for the most part, is one of his more straightforward movies, certainly compared to the gothic weirdness of Poor Things and the mad S&M tryptic of Kinds of Kindness. It sees Lanthimos join fellow auteurs Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) and Luca Guadagnino ( After the Hunt ) in tackling the precarious current moment in American politics in a far more direct way than he has attempted before.

Regular collaborator Jesse Plemons plays Teddy, a smart, nerdy small town man pushed to the fringes of society after his family beekeeping business is decim

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