If you thought the collaboration between Emma Stone And the director Yorgos Lanthimos could not be more risky after ‘Poor Things’, you were wrong. His new project, ‘Bugonia’, broke into the Venice Film Festival with such a visceral force that left the public with his mouth open.
Two years after his acclaimed arrival at the lido, The duo returned with a dark and wicked thriller that promises to be one of the most commented on the seasonaccording to the first criticisms.
The film presents Stone in the role of an executive director who is kidnapped and tortured by one of his employees, played by a disturbing Jesse Plemons, under the delusional suspicion that she is an alien. The scenes between captor and captive, described as risky and extreme, have marked a new peak in the bold filmography of Lanthimos.
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The reception of the film in Venice
The reception in the Venice Mostra could not be more triumphant. At the end of the projection, The public of the Festival awarded ‘Bugonia’ with a six -minute foot ovationa fervent reception that showed that the Italian audience was up to the proposed film challenge.
The cast, which also includes Alicia Silverstone, received applause with multiple reverences. Emma Stone, visibly excited and with her husband Dave McCary supporting her among the public, could not contain the tears. The actress ended up laughing in tears when she met a sign of a fan who said: “Emma, do you dance with me?”
The gala began hours before, where despite a rainy weather in Venice, Stone and Plemons paraded through the red carpet before entering the Grande room. The actress, chanted by a multitude of fans that shouted her name in unison, approached the barricades for Tomarselfis and sign autographs, consolidating an electrical connection with her followers, this as reported by Variety.
‘Bugonia ‘is a new English version of the 2003 South Korean film’ Save the Green Planet!, By Jang Joun-Hwanand becomes the fourth collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone, after “Poor Things”, “The Favorite” and the short film ‘Bleat’.
One of them made the Stone receive its second Oscar as ‘Best Actress’. The question that now is around the criticism of critics is inevitable: will it have ‘bugonia’ the luck to take her to her third Oscar?
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