Overview
- Lanthimos’ film is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 Save the Green Planet!, with critics describing a sardonic, absurdist approach.
- The plot follows Teddy Gatz, a conspiracy-minded apiarist, who abducts biotech executive Michelle Fuller after deciding she is an alien in disguise.
- Reviewers single out the charged face-offs between Stone and Plemons, noting Stone’s on-camera head shaving and Plemons’ layered intensity.
- Coverage highlights a disquieting black-comedy tone and graphic material, with an R rating for bloody violent content, grisly images, suicide and language.
- U.S. reviews list an Oct. 31 theatrical opening, with reactions calling the film strange, darkly funny, and potentially divisive.