Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian fantasy, his movies dissect the rules that govern human behavior with deadpan precision and feral wit. It may not be a necessarily enjoyable ride, but, for me, it's always worth enduring the turbulence. Last week ended with the theatrical release of Bugonia, the newest entry in Lanthimos' filmography and his fourth consecutive collaboration with the inimitable Emma Stone. A reimagining of Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet! (2003), the film follows two eco-conspiracists, Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and Don (Aidan Delbis), who become convinced that a...
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