🎬 Surrealism is both the greatest achievement and the downfall of Ari Aster’s new film, BEAU IS AFRAID, starring Joaquin Phoenix. | ✍️ Maxwell Rabb
director previously held back the full scale of his surrealist inclinations. And that’s a tough pill to swallow. Aster’s third feature film amplifies the frenetic and horrific themes that defined his first two films.emerges as a purposefully jumbled whirl wheel of paranoia, mommy issues, and hostility that haunt Beau Wassermann, the disquieted protagonist played by Joaquin Phoenix.
Beau is undeniably afraid. And Aster ensures we understand why. He is a mild-mannered loner, traversing a world where everyone fosters an incorrigible hostility. Around him, the world constantly unravels into unbridled chaos, but this relentless antagonism pales in comparison to Beau’s greatest fear: disappointing his mother, Mona Wassermann, who Patti LuPone plays with spine-chilling coldness.
Aster honors the surrealist tradition, adopting storytelling techniques that rely on “irrational knowledge.” His film is packed with marvelous supporting performances, including Nathan Lane as a deceitful suburban dad and Parker Posey as Elaine Bray, Beau’s estranged childhood love. Unfortunately,’s paranoiac surrealism mutates from its most enticing feature into its greatest shortcoming during its three-hour runtime.
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