News of Phoenix fainting came as part of an April Fool’s day prank by Ari Aster, when instead of showing audiences a screening of his previous film Midsommar, he instead unveiled his latest work at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York. He then has a series of mind-bending adventures in his bid to get home to his mum with a number of scenes hinting at the dark town of the horror comedy. 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. The trailer for Beau Is Afraid starts off pretty freakishly with a flashback on a conversation Beau’s mother had with his younger self.

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times wrote that the film was "a supersized, fitfully amusing, self-important tale of fear and loathing," and chastised the run-time by saying, "It's a journey; midway, it becomes a slog. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter .A rambling, labyrinthine, navel-gazing romp, it has narrative echoes of Tristram Shandy (both Sterne’s novel and Michael Winterbottom’s film) and an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink aesthetic reminiscent of the chaotic Cinerama comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. They all blend mum issues with the challenges of mental wellness and it’s hard not to relate to the sentiments that are behind them. Overall I think this film could have been condensed down to a 2 hour movie and explained the key parts better.

Following up Hereditary and Midsommar with his most divisive film yet, Aster has made something utterly unlike anything else you’ve ever likely to see – a weird, scary, funny, awkward, upsetting and oddly life-affirming act of self-obsession. violence There are sequences containing strong violence, including when a man is stabbed repeatedly in the hand with a knife, resulting in bloody detail, recurring sight of a man aggressively pressing his thumbs into the eyes of another man, and a man being repeatedly shot resulting in large spurts of blood. We also have a short synopsis for the film, which has been released by A24 - not that it clears much up.Zoe Lister-Jones plays a younger version of his mum, Parker Posey plays his love interest and Patti LuPone plays his mum. As ever, we’ll get the Beau Is Afraid runtime a little closer to the release date, similar to the age rating.

Ce mal qu'est la schizophrénie, dans ses manifestations les plus violentes, est exploré ici sans filtres. But Lane found the middle animated sequence had an "oddly antiquated beauty" that owed a nod to The Wizard of Oz (1939). After entering a cave, the boat's motor begins to stall, and he suddenly finds himself in a crowded arena. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. With the score, Krlic stated that "every step of the way [in the film, in relation to the score], you're with Joaquin, you're with Beau", adding that the score is meant to be a representation of Beau's mental state throughout the events of the film.

Try and remember the story the next day and you’ll only pick out the images and sounds that burrowed into your head. When his mother dies, Beau makes a journey home that involves some wild supernatural threats, and Ari Aster has kept the whole thing mysterious to keep us intrigued, although "Kafkaesque" has been used to describe the project. The performances are decent and set design is on point, it just fails to deliver any narrative what so ever and if this was the intention, to question and explore conventional narrative and story telling, then it failed tremendously.

all content and information unless pertaining to companies, studios or advertisers included on this site, and to movies, TV series and cinemas listed on this site. Having been threatened by their late son’s traumatised friend Jeeves (Denis Menochet), whom they have also taken in, Beau must make another of what will be a regular series of escapes. Und sagen wir mal so: Waren Hereditary und Midsommar schon nichts für jeden, so ist Beau is Afraid noch einmal deutlich abgedrehter und weniger massenkompatibel - das ungefähre Gegenteil von Popcorn-Kino. 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. The pure oddness of this alt-reality urban dystopia, though very striking in its way, slightly brings into question how seriously we are supposed to take it all in the first place.

There is a new face in the game alongside Pheonix with the teenage role of Beau played by Armen Nahapetian. Made like a comedy, even if it runs like a horror, Beau Is Afraid almost challenges you to laugh even when you feel like crying.