Emma Stone’s Apocalyptic Showdown Blooms in “Bugonia”

Emma Stone in "Bugonia"

Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos collaborate again in the film "Bugonia", a story ripe with eco-paranoia.

Stone and Lanthimos have worked together on several projects, including "The Favourite" (2018), "Bleat" (2022), and "Poor Things" (2023), which have been known for their dark and exuberant sense of risk.

their collaboration, a mutual-favoritism society, has been hailed and sometimes reviled for its darkly exuberant sense of risk.

In "Bleat", Stone played a widow who brings her dead husband back to life, while in "Poor Things", she played a character with the brain of a child, the body of a woman, and the skills of a mad surgeon.

Author's summary: Emma Stone stars in Yorgos Lanthimos's new film.

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The New Yorker The New Yorker — 2025-10-24

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