Anytime you leave the theater after watching a Yorgos Lanthimos ‘ movie, he always keeps you thinking.
Some of that comes from the alpine slide ride of his movies, arguably zanier in their dramatis personae and plots twists than any David Lynch movie. Then there’s the debate about the morality witnessed on screen.
In his latest Venice Film Festival winning Bugonia , currently out in theaters via Focus Features, Lanthimos reteams with Emma Stone for the fifth time, and Jesse Plemons for the second, in a tale about Teddy (played by Plemons), who is a disgruntled guy who blames the world for his own miserable life, and believes that the ecological disasters of the modern world, and the opioid experiment which put his mother into a coma, are the works of pharmaceutical bioengineering C

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