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Early Praise for Stone and Plemons as Bugonia Expands to Wide Release This Week

Early reviews highlight a claustrophobic, performance-driven two-hander that dissects conspiracy culture.

Emma Stone’s Michelle works to convince her captors she is not, in fact, an extraterrestrial in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia.” (Courtesy of Focus Features)
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Overview

  • Yorgos Lanthimos’ English-language remake of Save the Green Planet! is in select U.S. theaters now and opens nationwide on Oct. 31, with India release the same day.
  • The dark comedy-thriller follows a conspiracy-minded beekeeper who kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO he believes is an alien, unfolding largely as an intense basement faceoff.
  • Critics single out Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for riveting performances and note the film’s themes of online radicalization, corporate power and grief, with some divided on the tonal payoff.
  • Shot on 35mm VistaVision by Robbie Ryan with a discordant score by Jerskin Fendrix and a screenplay by Will Tracy, the film is rated R and runs 1 hour, 58 minutes.
  • Stone shaved her head on camera for the role, and Plemons says he researched conspiracy paranoia and data-mining fears to shape his character’s worldview.