Review // "Bugonia": the World According to Yorgos Lanthimos, Closer to the Abyss

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There are directors who make films and others who create worlds of their own. Yorgos Lanthimos belongs to this second group. In Bugonia, he shows again a universe where common logic breaks and everything is uncomfortable. The film works as a strange but recognizable reflection of a time marked by mistrust and fear. History starts from an absurd idea: two men believe that a powerful executive is an alien threat to humanity. From there, Lanthimos …

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With Bugonia, Yórgos Lánthimos continues his favorite device, which consists of setting up an intrigue like a trap in order to capture a fragment of our time, to immobilize for a moment, and to make it visible at the price of an unease. The film begins as a paranoid farce – two men convinced of having identified the absolute enemy – and slides, in degrees, towards a black comedy that is increasingly irrespirable. We laugh, sometimes frankly.