Bald people will be the first to see “Bugonia”

There was a movement before the premiere of The Long March and with Bugonia, something similar is happening.

Anyone who lives in LA and wants to see Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist comedy before everyone else can do so on Monday, October 20 at the Culver Cinema at 8 pm Admission is free, but there is one condition: the preview is “for the bald, or those willing to be bald.” So if you want to be among the first in order of arrival, you will have to be peeled or peeled. If you have hair, from 6 pm there will be a professional there who will shave your head.

Of course, it doesn’t end there: Focus is going to film part of the preview and use it for promotional purposes, as happens with horror movie ads.

A literal and symbolic transformation

Bugonia was based on the South Korean film Save the Green Planet, the protagonist Emma Stone plays Michelle, CEO of a pharmaceutical company kidnapped by Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and Don (Aidan Delbis). They are conspiracy theorists who have the idea that Michelle is an alien who came to destroy Earth, and while they hold her captive they shave her head so she can’t contact their ship. For this film Stone had to shave his head. If it reassures you, in August he said that it was great to go without hair.

Everyone else, that is, those who want to keep their hair intact, will be able to see Bugonia when it opens in theaters on Friday, October 24.

This article was translated from Gizmodo US by Lucas Handley. Here you can find the original version.