When Yorgos Lanthimos first read the script that would become Bugonia , he knew almost instantly that he was about to do two things he had never attempted before in his acclaimed career: He would direct a film he hadn’t closely developed himself, and he would tackle a story more directly about the present-day state of the world than anything in his diverse but beguilingly abstracted previous features.

“Up until this point, I’d read scripts, but I’ve never been so excited immediately afterward that I would say, ‘This is almost ready for me to make just as it is,’ ” Lanthimos recalls. “To be handed something that was already so great was a tremendous gift.”

When Yorgos Lanthimos first read the script that would become Bugonia , he knew almost instantly that he was about to do t

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