For not having tasted the last three releases of Yorgos Lanthimos at all, The Favorite, Poor Creatures et Kinds of Kindnesswe were preparing to draw a definitive line on this sneering and overrated satirist. But the Greek filmmaker fortunately remains unpredictable in his choices and creative enough to surprise. This is the case with this free adaptation of a Korean comedy (Save the green planet!by Jang Joon-hwan, 2003) by screenwriter Will Tracy (the indigestible The Menu2022), to which he gives style and radicality. But without the photographic affectations that made his last films so-have-you-seen. It is therefore not by chance that Bugonia was one of the most popular films of the last Venice Film Festival, even without prizes.
Updated and moved to the United States, the argument hits the nail on the head. While two amateur beekeepers discuss their bees and worrying colony phenomena, a CEO records a video to tout the employment policy of her pharmaceutical and chemical company, Auxolith. In fact, Teddy, a thirty-year-old with long greasy hair who remains in his family home in the countryside, tends more to soliloquize than to really talk with his cousin Donny, a sort of big, mentally retarded baby. For her part, the star of the new economy Michelle Fuller, cold, disciplined and alone, who shuttles between her beautiful villa and the large glass building of the company, quickly appears to be an expert in doublespeak. In a handful of scenes, here is the scene of a confrontation that will spark.
