Bugonia, the latest film from the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, begins with shots of bees. As they gently buzz about in a field of wildflowers, a voice-over intones the glory of the insects’ lives. Their ability to help another species reproduce through pollination is, the speaker marvels, like “sex, but cleaner.” Their beauty emerges from their “larger organizing principle.”

The voice belongs to Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), a recluse who spends his days alternating between beekeeping and obsessively researching “Andromedans,” a humanoid race of extraterrestrials that he and other deep-web truthers believe has infiltrated Earth’s population. Teddy is convinced that their kind is planning to destroy the planet, and that Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), the CEO of a major pharmaceutical

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