US EditionEmma Stone Elevates the Bubble Hem at the Venice Film Festival
Emma Stone stars as a CEO abducted by conspiracy theorists in a film reflecting current global anxieties about technology, climate change, and authoritarianism, premiering at Venice Film Festival.
- During Bugonia's world premiere events in Venice, actor Emma Stone said she believes in aliens, and Focus Features plans a theatrical release on Oct. 24.
- The film, adapted from a 2003 Korean sci-fi source, positions Emma Stone as a CEO kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien, with Will Tracy and Yorgos Lanthimos developing the script over several years.
- The production required physical transformations and harsh interrogation moments, such as Jesse Plemons, actor, tranquilizing and shocking Michelle, character played by Emma Stone, while Green Day's `Basket Case` blares, and shaving her head, which Stone said was easiest.
- Reviewers praised Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, highlighting Plemons's extraordinary performance, and called Bugonia a galvanizing suspense thriller with striking visuals and Lanthimos's strongest recent work.
- Commentators note that Bugonia engages with misinformation and conspiracy culture, with Yorgos Lanthimos warning humanity faces a reckoning soon amid technology, AI, wars and climate change.
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The 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival last night lived its second day with the screening of Bugonia, the latest film starring Emma Stone and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos that promises to be one of the essential films this fall. In it, the actress plays Michelle, an executive director of a large pharmaceutical company that is kidnapped by two men obsessed with conspiracies, convinced that she is actually an alien determined t…
The day of "Bugonia" by Yorgos Lanthimos and "Jay Kelly" by Noah Baumbach, with Emma Stone, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Jesse Plemons and Greta Gerwig
The actress at the Cinema Festival with Yorgos Lanthimos. Successful? I know how to handle it, there's me and l'avatar as an actress. I believe in extraterrestrials, we can't be alone in the universe.
The actress is in competition with Bugony, her fourth test with Yorgos Lanthimos. In the 90s my father bought the first cell phone. That object had to improve our lives, since then we are all more alone.
Cd. of Mexico.- The new film by Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival with a standing ovation of almost seven minutes. Emma Stone, accompanied by Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone and the rest of the cast, made several obeisances to the audience, while the Oscar winner was moved to tears with her husband Dave McCary. Bugonia follows Michelle (Stone), executive director of a major company, kidnapped by two …
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