Autumn 2025 cinema season: Celine Song, Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos and more
The autumn 2025 film season in Italy features a slate of high-profile releases from international auteurs. Celine Song returns with 'Material Love', following her success with 'Past Lives', a social experiment on love as transaction. Pietro Marcello presents 'Duse', a political portrait of actress Eleonora Duse. Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt' (October 16) is a psychological thriller merging aesthetic sensibility with existential reflection. Guillermo del Toro finally releases his long-awaited 'Frankenstein', reinterpreting the myth from the creature's perspective. Luc Besson's 'Dracula: A Love Tale' (October 30) offers a baroque, sentimental take on the vampire. Yorgos Lanthimos closes the season on November 13 with 'Bugonia', a black sci-fi comedy remake of 'Save the Green Planet!', using the bee crisis as a metaphor for collective paranoia. The season is framed as a response to a lackluster summer, with films interrogating memory, identity, and desire.
Key facts
- Celine Song's 'Material Love' is about a dating consultant who treats relationships as transactions.
- Pietro Marcello's 'Duse' explores the biography of Eleonora Duse, a 20th-century theatre icon.
- Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt' releases on October 16, 2025.
- Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' is a reinterpretation from the creature's viewpoint.
- Luc Besson's 'Dracula: A Love Tale' opens on October 30, 2025.
- Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia' is a remake of the Korean film 'Save the Green Planet!' and releases on November 13, 2025.
- 'Bugonia' addresses the bee crisis as a metaphor for ecological and social collapse.
- The article is published on Artribune and written by Gaia Rotili.
Entities
Artists
- Celine Song
- Pietro Marcello
- Eleonora Duse
- Luca Guadagnino
- Guillermo del Toro
- Luc Besson
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Gaia Rotili
Institutions
- Artribune
- Amazon
Locations
- Italy