Lanthimos is back in this wild black comedy, again collaborating with powerhouse performers Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Conspiracists kidnap a Big Pharma Executive whom they believe is an alien. Chaining her up, they have three days to stop an alien-triggered Armageddon by breaking her. A hilarious battle of wits ensues.
2025
Bugonia
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Runtime
120 Minutes
Country
Ireland, United States, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Canada
Classification
MA 15+
In a genre-bending balls-to-the-wall pitch-black comedy, Lanthimos is back in his second collaboration with powerhouse performers, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons – and fifth collaboration with Stone.
On what they believe to be the eve of the Armageddon, a conspiracy obsessed young man and his easily led young cousin kidnap a hard-nosed Big Pharma executive whom they believe to be an alien. Chaining her up in a basement, they have three days to break her before her species triggers a planetary collapse via bee extinction.
A battle of wits ensues between the ruthless CEO and the men with a worldview shaped via their computers in their basements – but with a superhero’s drive to save the world.
“Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are dynamite.”
Screen Daily
“Bugonia, is a heady and gripping experience, in no small part because it takes the form of a duel — tactical, philosophical, brutal — between two characters.”
Variety
Toronto, Telluride, Venice
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Film Credits
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Year
2025
Country
Ireland, United States, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Canada
Language
English
Type
Feature & Fiction
Program Strand
Special Presentations
Producer
Ari Aster, Ed Guiney, Lars Knudsen, Yorgos Lanthimos, Miky Lee, Andrew Lowe & Emma Stone
Writer
Jang Joon-hwan & Will Tracy
Cinematographer
Robbie Ryan
Editor
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Cast
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons & Alicia Silverstone
Music
Jerskin Fendrix
Film Source
Universal Pictures
Genre
Black Comedy & Crime
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