In a year with newFinal Destination and I Know What You Did Last Summerinstallments, trust oddball Greek Weird Wave auteur Yorgos Lanthimos to one-up actual slashers in terms of brutal death sequences.
The filmmaker has built a career out of discomfort, staging absurdist, unsparing portraits of people and their power tussles, but think of his movies and you’ll find your thoughts invariably drifting towards dance rather than death — a childlike woman’s (Emma Stone) uninhibited, joyous flailing in Poor Things(2023)or the anachronistic voguing of the 18th century-set The Favourite(2018).
Not so in Bugonia, in which conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) ropes his sweet, neurodivergent cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) into helping him abduct Michelle Fuller (Stone), the high-profile head of a major pharmaceutical company, convinced she belongs to an invasive alien species. The premise of a bound woman helplessly attempting to persuade her captors of her innocence (and their irrationality) has a layer of tension pre-baked into it, but Lanthimos turns up the dial with a number of startling deaths.
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