The Telegraph’s movie critic Robbie Collin opinions Ari Aster’s new movie, Beau is Afraid:
Ari Aster’s new movie, Beau is Afraid, doesn’t work. However extra to the purpose, I’m unsure it’s truly meant to. The 36-year-old director of Hereditary and Midsommar has adopted these two acclaimed horror options with a calculated swerve into arthouse obscurantism: a three-hour movie bro decathlon, designed to interrupt the religion of all however probably the most sweatily fervent devotees.
It’s reminiscent, in a manner, of Southland Tales, Richard Kelly’s sweepingly weird follow-up to Donnie Darko, which drew deafening boos at its disastrous Cannes premiere in 2006. However Kelly’s movie (which is now having fun with one thing of a cult revival) at all times felt prefer it had been made with the most effective of intentions: it was an bold however muddled large swing from a younger auteur earnestly working along with his newfound artistic freedom. Beau is Afraid, then again, looks like Aster sat down at some point and stated to himself: proper, I’m going to make a Southland Tales.
It’s about… properly, that’s a part of the puzzle. Joaquin Phoenix performs Beau Wassermann, a nebbishy paranoiac who lives in a naked house in an unnamed city hellhole, overrun with lunatics and tramps. When his overbearing mom (Patti LuPone) dies in an accident that harks again to one in every of Hereditary’s most grotesque pictures, Beau should make the journey to her funeral.
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