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Tuesday 28 April 2026 at 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm) at Haddenham Village Hall
BUGONIA (15) 118 mins Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone Synopsis: Strange beliefs and unfounded convictions have shaped conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz into the man he is today. And haunted by the crazy idea that malevolent extraterrestrials live among us, Teddy has embarked on a quixotic crusade to rid humankind of the otherworldly menace. His latest target is Michelle Fuller, the high-profile CEO of Auxolith Biomedical, and Teddy is determined to beat a confession out of her. All he needs is courage. Now, reason won't cut it, and Fuller's intricate mind games won't save her skin, unless she comes clean about her sinister hidden agenda. However, Michelle is such a lovely person--perhaps a bit cold, but still a living, breathing human being. Then again, what if Gatz is onto something? Awards: 4 Oscar nominations, 5 BAFTA nominations, 3 Golden Globe nominations Reviews: "Bugonia is one of the best films in recent memory to capture what it feels like to be alive right now. Because of that, it is Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkest and most timely work." ***** INDEPENDENT "Lanthimos expertly milks maximum comic tension... Stone and Plemons prove ideal co-conspirators, with carefully balanced performances that have them taking turns as hero and villain without ever quite annihilating our sympathies or winning them outright." ***** DAILY TELEGRAPH "In an era where it’s become all too easy to release simple, didactic “eat the rich” stories, Lanthimos’s comedy-thriller zeroes in on the compelling cognitive dissonance that might lead one down a path of reckless lone-wolf violence" **** OBSERVER "Stone and Plemons’ verbal battles of wits are worth the price of admission, even if the script co-written by Will Tracy is overly reliant on culture war jargon." *** TIMEOUT "For me, Bugonia doesn’t have the ingenuity and elegance of Lanthimos’s previous film Kinds of Kindness, nor the emotional generosity and audacity of his steampunk fantasia Poor Things. It’s a spiny, prickly, hothouse flower." *** GUARDIAN "The real pleasure of Bugonia is seeing Stone and Plemons work together. They are a match for each other in ferocity and commitment, truly seeming almost a mini-repertory company now" NEW STATESMAN
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