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Ari Aster's dad told him he 'shouldn't write' his next movie after 'Beau Is Afraid' underperformed at the box office.
In a new interview with Marc Maron, 'Eddington' director Ari Aster has revealed his dad advised him to stop writing movies ...
Audiences looking to relive the messy, violent, paranoid emotions of mid-2020 America need look no further than Ari Aster's ...
The first word we see written down in “Beau Is Afraid,” Ari Aster’s raging Oedipal phantasmagoria of a movie, is “Guilt,” with a capital “G.” It’s not the last word to pop up in a ...
The first word we see written down in “Beau Is Afraid,” Ari Aster’s raging Oedipal phantasmagoria of a movie, is “Guilt,” with a capital “G.” It’s not the last word to pop up in a ...
Beau Is Afraid is ostensibly Aster’s “comedy,” though it’s tinged with the same phantasmagoria as his previous efforts: Here, he’s stepping pretty visibly into Charlie Kaufman territory ...
Mona makes her son whimper, too. He would be Beau, the title character. Played with impressive bewilderment by Joaquin Phoenix, Beau is afraid of pretty much everything — and with good reason.
“Beau Is Afraid” also keeps its audience guessing and scratching their heads – one memorable scene in an attic is guaranteed to break brains and/or cause a laughing fit.
The ending of Beau Is Afraid sees Beau Wasserman on trial for his life, with the whole world acting as his jury. To even try to understand what the heck is going on here, we should start at the ...
Beau Is Afraid draws a complete timeline explored through a non-linear screenplay written by Aster. It begins with his birth, putting the viewer into his bewildered perspective.
Ari Aster is known for making family dramas turned, well, horrific, but the auteur recently experienced some family drama of ...