Beau Is Afraid

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It’s decapitated but because of a birthmark he instantly realizes it’s not his mother’s corpse but the maid’s. Hereditary was a little over two hours, but Midsommar clocked in at two and a half and with all of the time skipping and setting changes we could be in for another longer film here.

In addition to Phoenix in the lead role, the Beau Is Afraid cast includes Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan as his ankle tag captors, Stephen McKinley Henderson as a member of Beau’s support group, and Armen Nahapetian as the younger version of Beau.

Martin Scorsese was similarly enthusiastic about the film, citing Aster as "one of the most extraordinary new voices in world cinema" and praising Aster for subverting the traditional three-act structure. How you react will depend on how funny (or not) you find a film that is to Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death what Woody Allen’s Love and Death was to Tolstoy’s War and Peace.Die Filme von Ari Aster sind ziemlich speziell - und das kann man schon jetzt sagen, denn bislang hat der Regisseur, Drehbuchautor und Produzent erst drei Spielfilme gemacht. However, that wasn’t the case for The Whale, which came out in the US in December, but isn’t due to arrive in the UK until the 3rd February 2023, so there could well be a split run for Ari Aster’s horror comedy too.

Jaquin Phoenix does a lot of running in the role, mostly to try to escape the world around him, which appears to be one of the themes.Laid out in four or five distinct acts over three deliberately uncomfortable hours, the film finds Joaquin Phoenix as Beau Wassermann – a man weighed down with anxiety and guilt and mother-issues – trying to get from his apartment to her house.