A remake of the 2003 South Korean movie, Save The Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, this pleasingly madcap comedy-drama will no doubt satisfy fans of Lanthimos’s off-kilter take on the world around us.
He’s also an amateur beekeeper, even bringing honey into work for his colleagues. And like anyone attuned to environmental issues, he’s worried about these insects dying off for good. When the story starts, he’s teamed up with his impressionable, slobby cousin Don (Aidan Delbis, making his screen debut) for a very important mission: to abduct Michelle.
This is not for financial gain; there is no ransom to be demanded here. Rather, he’s convinced Michelle is an alien who has assimilated on Planet Earth, with the express intent of destroying all known society. As a lunar eclipse approaches, his plan is to force Michelle to take him to her mothership in order that he may save us all.
What follows is a battle of wills between Teddy and Michelle, a woman who comes across like “pure corporate evil”, as Teddy puts it, with her dislike of diversity training and the “new era” of allowing employees to leave at 5.30pm.
Scripted by Will Tracy, a writer on TV show Succession who also penned the dark comedy The Menu, Bugonia may well be extraterrestrial in its outlook, but it's truly a prod at the way corporations have taken over our planet, maximising profits at the expense of everything else.
Reuniting the shaven-headed Stone and Plemons is a smart move by Lanthimos, who relishes letting the two actors face off in the basement scenes for what is a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. There’s a small-but-key role too for Alicia Silverstone, who featured in Lanthimos’s 2017 movie The Killing of a Sacred Deer, but that may be better left as a surprise.
Bugonia arrives in UK cinemas on 31st October 2025.
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