Emma Stone's conspiracy comedy Bugonia delivers layers of weirdness with an acquired taste in humour

Bugonia refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees spontaneously formed from rotting ox carcasses — and it’s hard to avoid making connections to the plot and characters in Yorgos Lanthimos's new comedy: that while we want to believe something good, beautiful and ordered can spring from the depths of something dirty, polluted and diseased, it’s more likely a fairy tale.
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