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Bugonia

Emma Stone in Bugonia.

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In Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film, Emma Stone was often seen naked, discovering her sexuality, or dancing unguardedly as a woman brought back to life with the brain of a child. Two years later, Stone returns to lead Bugonia, Lanthimos’s latest film, and this time she’s a different kind of naked. A powerful CEO of a major company, she’s kidnapped by two conspiracists—played by Jesse Plemons and Stavros Halkias—who shave her head and subject her to torture after becoming convinced that she is an alien who has come to Earth to destroy it. A dark comedy, Bugonia is an adaptation of a South Korean film from 2003, Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! —Jeanne Malle

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