FILM
BUGONIA
EMMA STONE’S BUZZY (AND BUZZ-CUT-Y) NEW SATIRE
Emma Stone has a hair-razing day;
Brothers in arms Don (Aidan Delbis) and Teddy (Jesse Plemons);
★★★★
OUT OCTOBER 31 / CERT 15 / 118 MINS
DIRECTOR Yorgos Lanthimos
CAST Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
PLOT Tech CEO Michelle Fuller (Stone) is kidnapped by conspiracy-theorist beekeeper Teddy (Plemons) because he thinks she’s an alien.
IS THERE A director-actor partnership quite as creatively fertile as that of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone? Over the past decade, the Greek filmmaker has steered his favourite actor through a right royal fracas (The Favourite), a fantastical feminist fable (Poor Things), a pitch-black triptych (Kinds Of Kindness), even a 16-minute experimental opera (2022’s Bleat). And back these oddball kindred spirits come, with the gripping and misanthropically funny Bugonia.