Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia began life as a remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! , and it retains the broad outlines of that strange classic. But it also feels like Lanthimos through and through, albeit with the strangest of twists: It’s the first picture of his populated by characters who feel like they exist in the real world, people you could run into if you walked out the door. The power of Lanthimos’s work has always come from his ability to provide surreal but dead-on metaphors that take on lives of their own: a futuristic resort where one must debase oneself to find a mate, in The Lobster ; or a family where the parents have trained their kids to accept absurdities as reality, in Dogtooth . With Bugonia , it feels like he’s entered our world at last,

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