Emma Stone Shocks Venice With 6-Minute Standing Ovation for Gory Alien Kidnapping Thriller ‘Bugonia’

At the film’s conclusion, the festival crowd showered “Bugonia” with rapturous adoration, earning a six-minute standing ovation and showing that this Italian audience was up for what Lanthimos was serving.

Stone, Plemons, Lanthimos and the rest of the cast, including Alicia Silverstone, took in the applause while bowing multiple times. Stone, with her husband Dave McCary clapping behind her, even teared up and then laughed through misty eyes as she looked at a sign inside the theater that asked, “Emma, will you dance with me?”

Earlier on this rainy Thursday night, Stone and Plemons walked the red carpet and dutifully posed for selfies with — and even signed some autographs for — the hordes of fans who gathered in the dreary weather in hopes of catching a glimpse at the stars. The crowd was particularly enthusiastic to see Stone, loudly chanting her name until she made her way over to the barricades to snap some pictures.

“Bugonia,” an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 South Korean film “Save the Green Planet,” is the fourth collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone following “Poor Things,” “The Favourite” and “Kinds of Kindness.” Two of those films earned Stone a best actress win at the Oscars. Could “Bugonia” be lucky No. 3?

Emma Stone is exhausting.

How many times do we have to be subjected to her acting in another "racy thriller?"

Ugh.

Enough, already. No more Oscars for her.

At this point, it just seems gratuitous.

Is it just me, or does the writing in R1 sound like AI-generated slop?

These interminable "ovations" are a meaningless ....

Has anyone ever partaken in these ridiculous standing ovations? Sometimes 10+ minutes?!

I would tap out after a minute or two. As if these big Hollywood egos need any more adoration.

Wonder what animals will be killed or mistreated in this movie, since the director likes that so much.

I’m so over this neurotic bug eyed bitch.

R5 - I agree - I think they have to explain the ovations though. Like - first there's a minute of clapping - then the director hops up in front of the stage and waves his hands and they clap for another minute - then the director yells for each actor to come on and each actor gets a round of applause.

It's like the end of a play or musical - you wouldn't really call that a 6 minute ovation but it happens regularly when they rotate out the entire cast and crew to take a bow.

I have a feeling that's what happened - cuz no fucking way is an audience just going to clap on their feet for 6 minutes staring at the credits.

Oh and yes, I think they have industry plants in the front rows who leap to their feet to start the ovations.

Love Emma Stone, the most talented actress of her generation.

I'm with R9. I was initially sceptical and thought she was just another overhyped new young Hollywood thing but she's the real deal. BTW, anyone heard anything about The Curse coming back for S2?

So she can scream when she's tied up and tortured by an alien. Can she do Shakespeare? Ibsen?

R1 or AI, Stone won an oscar for Poor Things but not for the other two, although she was nominated for The Favorite

R11, I saw he in Cabaret on Broadway and she was one of the greatest Sally Bowles' I've ever seen, and I saw Natasha Richardson.

I see no reason she cannot do Shakespeare or Ibsen, you pretentious TWAT.

Then why doesn't she, instead of wasting her time on ridiculous B-movie horror plots like this one?

Please call me Emily. Thank you.

She consistently works with auteur directors on challenging material and the DataLounge response is to criticize her for not doing Ibsen onstage.

I swear, some of you have no idea that Mrs. Fiske is dead.

I'd never heard of this:

[quote]A detailed description of the bugonia process can be found in Byzantine Geoponica: Build a house, ten cubits high, with all the sides of equal dimensions, with one door, and four windows, one on each side; put an ox into it, thirty months old, very fat and fleshy; let a number of young men kill him by beating him violently with clubs, so as to mangle both flesh and bones, but taking care not to shed any blood; let all the orifices, mouth, eyes, nose etc. be stopped up with clean and fine linen, impregnated with pitch; let a quantity of thyme be strewed under the reclining animal, and then let windows and doors be closed and covered with a thick coating of clay, to prevent the access of air or wind. After three weeks have passed, let the house be opened, and let light and fresh air get access to it, except from the side from which the wind blows strongest. Eleven days afterwards, you will find the house full of bees, hanging together in clusters, and nothing left of the ox but horns, bones and hair.

R16, she has red hair. They risk eternal damnation if they fail to torture her.

Emma Stone is overrated and doesn't need to be in every movie that's come out for the past 15 years.

Bugonia is her tenth feature film in as many years, R19. She is not prolific.

You're just making shit up. I love bitchiness. Laziness is another thing entirely.

R20, Well. The entertainment press promotes her year round so it seems like she's in every movie.

If Emma Stone or Lily-Rose Depp's in it, it's not for me.

Emma Stone is exhausting.

[quote] How many times do we have to be subjected to her acting in another "racy thriller?"

Ugh.

Enough, already. No more Oscars for her.

At this point, it just seems gratuitous.

Well. It's either Emma Stone or the dreadful threat of having Gwyneth or JHo getting Oscar nominations next year.

Will there be muff?

Emma Stone is also the newest Louis Vuitton brand ambassador. She's a busy little bee.

She's definitely painful to look at.

Only 6 minutes.... they hated it.

I don’t think she pees on the floor in this one, R27. “Poor Things” applause went on forever.

I know she's supposed to be playing different characters, but when she acts, all I ever see is Emma Stone the person.

There's no transformation, whatsoever.

Only 6 minutes!

R12 I cannot believe that error in R1 was actually published in Variety. The error is still there if you click on the link in the OP.

But does she get raped with a garden hose?

[quote]She consistently works with auteur directors on challenging material and the DataLounge response is to criticize her for not doing Ibsen onstage.

Nobody said she had to do Ibsen onstage, a filmed version would be fine.

But I don't consider "gory alien kidnapping thrillers" challenging material no matter how auteurist the director is.

The premise of the film sounds consistent with QAnon conspiracy theories. Is the film intended to be political commentary? It sounds like it has the potential to be interesting. I just can't deal with gory stuff as I've gotten older.

YAAAAWWWNNNNNNN

We’ve all had sufficient of Emma Stone.

This movie sounds like tons o' fun.

Hard pass on torture porn.

[quote] Well. It's either Emma Stone or the dreadful threat of having Gwyneth or JHo getting Oscar nominations next year.

Dreadful threat? I’m actively rooting them.

She’s so overrated.

Does anyone remember OUR foreign fest rapturous applauses??

Lengthy, rapturous applause sounds like a film festival's version of Broadway's standing ovations. Everybody gets one.

The "8 Minute ovation for Maria"is the tip off on how empty all this is. Publicists have been using this "STANDING OVATION AT CANNES! STANDING OVATION AT VENICE" crap for about a decade, to try to convince the community that a film will be awards worthy and a contender. It's pretty commonplace.

As for this film, with this president, I don't need any more torture porn in my life.

Babygirl Nicole received a 7-minute ovation

I did not get the appeal of Emma Stone until I saw Poor Things. She was brilliant. I loved the film.

Is it going to be super different from Save The Green Planet? This is a remake of a comedy film, the tone seems much much darker in Bugonia.

She chooses weird movies to star in. I quite liked her in The Help.

R46 she has a proven track record with Yorgos with multiple Oscar nominations and a win for her. I adore both of them. He’s really in the minority of directors working who’s doing weird, esoteric, entertaining as fuck films nowadays that are commercially appealing. I really want to see him an Oscar soon.

Has anyone seen the Korean movie that this is based on?

I’d like to read the script since it doesn’t come out until October. I liked the trailer, but I don’t expect this to be a masterpiece.

[quote] I did not get the appeal of Emma Stone until I saw Poor Things. She was brilliant. I loved the film.

That's like saying Johnny Depp should have won an Oscar for Edward Scissorhands.

It was the exact same performance!

R13. I agree with you about her Sally (I didn’t see Richardson, but Stone sang it better). I fell in gay-man-love with her in Easy A and have enjoyed her work ever since (haven’t seen all her movies). I’d love to see her match K. Hepburn’s record—while Hepburn is more iconic, Stone is more varied.

As to the classics—I could see her as Nora, Hedda, and other Ibsen heroines. She seems like she could be interesting in Chekhov, and she would be a formidable Miss Julie.

R49 Depp wasn’t naked for, nd certainly not full frontal. I don’t think those roles compare at all.

I would be all for this. Edward Albee and Ibsen are my favorites.

I do think she would do well in Hedda, A Dolls House or The Wild Duck.

Her associate with Lanthimos is going to be the end of her career.

R53 Variety has an opposite take.

Also THR:

[quote]Variety has an opposite take.

I never missed a Katharine Hepburn torture porn movie.

"Makes a Bald Bid..."

[quote] I quite liked her in The Help.

I actively dislike her boring plotline about her bad hair and wanted to get back to the Howard vs Chastain bitchfest and Minnie’s pie.

I would have thought it would take a lot more than an ovation for Emma Stone to shock Venice.

To every director their muse

R53 It won her an Oscar and his films are constantly nominated for awards. What are you on about?