Review: Ari Aster's third feature ‘Beau Is Afraid,’ starring Joaquin Pheonix, is a tumble into dark absurdity that gains more abstraction as it goes.
before staging this century’s most disturbingly beautiful breakup in 2019’s. While the film certainly has its scary moments, it’s more of a comedy than a horror film, though its epic sprawl is fretful and unhappy. Aster’s film is singular, while steeped in many influences., that consummate surrealist whose wildest flights of fancy can nonetheless be boiled down to everyday anxieties.
Read one way, this is a remarkably frank and revelatory film: Aster making manifest his dreadfully active psyche so that we may better understand him. There’s satire embedded within, a grand hyperbole about Jewish boys and their moms, about the embarrassments of moving through the world as a nebbish frightened by their shadow and everyone else’s.
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