Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix Unveil the Sometimes Scary, Frequently Funny, Deeply Weird Three-Hour ‘Beau Is Afraid’ at Surprise Screening

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Emma Stone was blunt. “Are you okay, man?” she asked Ari Aster after a surprise screening of his latest film, “Beau Is Afraid” at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on a rain…

Audiences around the country may be asking variations of the same question after they emerge from the occasionally creepy, often hilarious and deeply weird horror-comedy. It’s a movie about a neurotic man with serious mommy issues, who must endure a phantasmagoric odyssey as he labors to get home following a family tragedy.

The crowd seemed to love it, though the group was already game to spend a Saturday afternoon watching a longer version of “Midsommar.” The general public may have a tougher time with the film, as people split between the profound and ponderous camps when it comes to this bladder-testing epic. Even Stone, who called “Beau Is Afraid” a “masterpiece,” admitted “When I first saw it I needed hours afterwards to process it.

Aster said working with Phoenix, who plays the twitchy, over-medicated title character with a scary level of intensity, was a career highlight for him. That meant falling down ladders, barreling through forests and crashing through glass doors. The latter stunt left him with a shard of glass in his side.

 

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Dont underrestimate him. If he want you to, you will 😅

Why would the writer of this article post THAT director's quote to describe this film?

One of the greatest actors of our time. Can't wait to see this.

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Ari Aster really about to put me through it for 3 hours 😭😭

I’ve mostly loved A24.. and Ari Aster.. always Parker Posey.. but this movie so far is giving “trying really hard”… I hope it matches the hype.. 🤷🏻‍♂️😬

The trailer for this looks wild

Fyk me! Right in my wheelhouse o' weirdness.

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