Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’s quirky collaborations over the past seven years have been fruitful, to say the least. The Greek auteur and double Oscar-winning actor have given us fascinating oddities (the silent, black-and-white short Bleat , the divisive Kinds of Kindness ) and awards heavyweights ( The Favourite , Poor Things ), and continue to surprise and delight with every new addition to their joint oeuvre. The latest is Bugonia , a defiantly weird remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet! from 2003, a conspiracy-theory caper co-starring Jesse Plemons, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival .

Strange and slow, and then shocking and deliberately alienating, Bugonia isn’t designed to win over Lanthimos skeptics, nor those

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