Movie house: Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos

After The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, Stone and Lanthimos join forces again, this time for a quirky remake: that of the South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet (2003) by Jang Joon-hwan. The film - about the fear of aliens - became a cult classic on the festival circuit, but never reached the general public.

Each his own reality. Bugonia marks the fourth collaboration between top actor Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos, a man who has a patent on confusing cinema with absurd-surrealist overtones. Lanthimos created a hybrid of black comedy, psychological thriller and existential reflection on a high-tech digital environment where paranoia, conspiracy theories and mass hysteria are rampant. "We live in a world where everyone can create their own reality," Lanthimos told me in an interview during the Berlinale. "Bugonia carries that logic through to the absurd, but does not condemn. After all, who can claim to hold the absolute truth