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.

In the film, Jesse Plemons is Teddy, a man who, along with his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) kidnaps Michelle Fuller, a powerful CEO played by Emma Stone. They do this because Teddy and Don believe Michelle is an alien who is leading a plan to destroy life on Earth. And so, the film unfolds with the audience stuck in the middle. Could Michelle actually be an alien? Is Teddy just a crazy conspiracy theorist? What’s right, what’s wrong, and what the

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