""Bugonia," from "Poor Things" director Yorgos Lanthimos, casts Emma Stone as a high-powered CEO who is kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists convinced she's an alien out to destroy planet Earth. Adapted from an equally-offbeat South Korean film from 2003 ("Save the Green Planet!"), "Bugonia" is a wacky black comedy with sci-fi and paranoid thriller elements that reflects on humanity's apparent inability to stop the environmental catastrophe we all see coming."
""Unfortunately, not much of the dystopia in this film is very fictional, a lot of it is very reflective of the real world," said Lanthimos in Venice. "Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon. People need to choose the right path, otherwise, I don't know how much time [we have] left." Yorgos Lanthimos was the Golden Lion for 'Poor Things' in 2023Image: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images"
""No Other Choice," the new film from South Korean director Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy", "The Handmaiden"), also wrings comedy out of the bleak realities of our post-industrial capitalist world. The satirical thriller channels Alfred Hitchcock in its tale of a hardworking family man driven to desperate measures. For 25 years, Man-su (played by "Squid Game" star Lee Byung-hun) was a devoted employee in a paper manufacturing plant before a corporate takeover leaves him out on the street."
Venice presented films blending dark humor with urgent political and social themes, including war, AI risks, and environmental collapse. Bugonia stars Emma Stone as a CEO kidnapped by conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien intent on destroying Earth, mixing black comedy, sci-fi, and paranoid thriller elements to reflect humanity’s apparent inability to prevent environmental catastrophe. Much of the film’s dystopia mirrors current reality and frames a looming reckoning that demands choices to avoid running out of time. Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice follows a laid-off paper-plant worker driven to desperate violence after a corporate takeover, satirizing post-industrial capitalism through Hitchcockian tension.
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