Tag: modern cinema
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Bugonia and the Quiet Dread of Alienation: Lanthimos’s Latest Confronts the Fractured Self
Introduction: A Quiet, Thorny Conspiracy Bugonia, the latest offering from director Yorgos Lanthimos, arrives with the unsettling calm his films are known for. Rather than a high-octane thriller, the movie plunges into the texture of alienation—the sense that something essential is misaligned in our social fabric, and that the world’s surface hides something unfamiliar and…
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Bugonia Review: Lanthimos’s Grim Dark Comedy Thriller
Introduction: A film that gnaws at the nerves Yorgos Lanthimos returns with Bugonia, a film that squares off his trademark offbeat sensibilities with a grim conspiracy thriller. The result is not comfort cinema but a relentless moral maelstrom that asks how far a society will go to preserve its own narrative. If you’ve followed Lanthimos’s…
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Bugonia Review: Lanthimos’s Grim, Unsettling Dark Comedy
Bugonia review: A disquieting plunge into Lanthimos’s latest Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another foray into the uncomfortable corners of human behavior, and Bugonia is not for the easily unsettled. The film is a gritty conspiracy thriller masked as a dark comedy, a blend that tests the patience of viewers while offering a precise, if troubling,…