The team that brought you 2018’s The Favourite , 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness — filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and actress/producer Emma Stone — has struck again, this time with Bugonia , which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 28 and has been screening at the Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend. I caught it on Saturday at the Werner Herzog Theater, and I’m quite confident that, like the daring The Favourite and Poor Things , and unlike the slight Kinds of Kindness , it will be a significant awards season player.

Adapted by Will Tracy , a former editor of The Onion who later wrote on Succession and penned 2022’s The Menu , from Jang Joon-hwan ‘s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! , Bugon

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