Waking up chained to a cot in a basement, Michelle Fuller, a pharmaceutical executive played by Emma Stone, faces her captor, a wretched-looking man named Teddy (Jesse Plemons). Though still half-drugged, Michelle realizes that Teddy doesn’t want money, doesn’t want fame.

He just wants her to admit she’s a space alien and take him to her Andromedan leader.

"I think that we maybe got off on the wrong foot," Michelle replies with a professional calm that masks growing terror. "And I would love to keep the conversation going."

So goes a pivotal moment in "Bugonia," another bleakly funny and occasionally gruesome comedy (if that’s the right word) from director Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s his fourth collaboration with Stone (including "Poor Things," which earned her an Oscar ), his second wit

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