In short, it’s life with catastrophic thinking at the wheel.īeau Wasserman ( Joaquin Phoenix) wants to visit his mother. It begins with its hero’s literal expulsion from the birth canal, wailing and bewildered, and ends with the Kafkaesque persecution of his guilty soul. Thank god, since it’s hard to read the film as anything but a drawn-out, highly paranoid spiral.

It’s as memorable, audacious, and indulgent as you’d hope from A24’s most expensive film to date – and from a release that, according to a viral tweet last month, reportedly left one American cinemagoer so enraged that he stood up during the end credits and bellowed, “I better not hear a single person f***ing clap”.Īster has enthusiastically assured us that there’s nothing autobiographical about Beau Is Afraid. Aster’s film takes the so-traumatic-it’s-funny sequences of his previous work – Toni Collette frothing at the mouth in Hereditary, or Midsommar’s bad boyfriend going up in flames – and spins them into a three-hour comedy of bad vibes and ritual humiliation.

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