Teddy has a bee in his bonnet about Michelle Fuller, the powerful chief executive of a pharmaceutical company. Teddy (Jesse Plemons) is convinced that Michelle (Emma Stone) – a ruthless, exaggerated alpha female – is actually an alien from the Andromedan race with nefarious designs on humankind.
A lunar eclipse is around the corner, during which an Andromedan spacecraft will visit Earth, Teddy predicts. Teddy and his neurodivergent cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) must act fast. The pair that has a dynamic out of the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men kidnap Michelle, shave off her hair, throw her into a cellar, and bid her to summon the Andromedan emperor.
The billing of seasoned misanthrope Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia as yet another of his black comedies is surely fake news of the kind that Teddy devours. Bugonia finds Lanthimos in a minor key, his ability to imagine the worst in people and his brilliance for creating unpredictable sniggers contained by an unusual refusal to embrace the source material’s outre qualities.
The 118-minute movie is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s Save The Green Planet! (2003). Bugonia swaps the original South Korean film’s anarchic humour for nervous half-chuckles and inchoate warnings about the fate of the planet.
The remake is characteristically cruel, given Lanthimos’s track record...
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