Yorgos Lanthimos is messing with us again. His movie 'Bugonia' will keep you guessing
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As an admirer of the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, it gave me no pleasure to report that his 2024 film, Kinds of Kindness, was all kinds of lousy — a trio of stories about human cruelty, each one more wearying than the last. You couldn't fault the actors, though: not Emma Stone, a brilliant Lanthimos regular who won an Oscar for her role in his film Poor Things, and not Jesse Plemons, a versatile addition to the director's regular company.
Now, Stone and Plemons have reunited in Lanthimos' wickedly funny new psychological thriller, Bugonia, which at times plays like a disca
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