Initially annoyed because "it was a really good take", Aster realized it was serious as "[Phoenix] was letting people touch him and people were tending to him and he was allowing it". After violent confrontations with an intruder at home, then by a police officer and a murderer on the street, Beau is hit by a food truck. Viewers are sure to be impressed by Aster's prodigious imagination and technical skill, amused by his gallows humour, and amazed by some of the outrageous images he puts on screen. Throughout those three hours, the mewling Phoenix doesn't convey much more than the abject sadness and self-pity that drip from him in the film's opening minutes, and the episodic structure means that while each segment is fascinating in its own right, they don't together contribute anything essential to the narrative.

Laid out in four or five distinct acts over three deliberately uncomfortable hours, the film finds Joaquin Phoenix as Beau Wassermann – a man weighed down with anxiety and guilt and mother-issues – trying to get from his apartment to her house. On its own, this opening 45-minute section works as a profoundly misanthropic satirical farce about the stresses of contemporary city life, with more visual gags, and more male nudity, than most raucous Hollywood comedies.Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 American surrealist tragicomedy horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Ari Aster. The first had an 18 certificate in the UK, so rated R in the US, and the latter was given a 15 certification in the UK, but still rated R in the States. Speaking about Joaquin Phoenix working alongside Ari Aster, co-star Stephen McKinley Henderson told The Hollywood Reporter: "Joaquin and Ari were so simpatico, and they worked together for the whole film.

Whatever the case, it is sure to be, like Hereditary and Midsommar before it, quite the cinematic ride.It features Joaquin Phoenix in the central role, with his co-star Stephen McKinley Henderson previously telling The Hollywood Reporter that the star had a working relationship with Aster which was as though they were "really old friends". A Lynchian second chapter moves from the city to the suburbs, as a wounded Beau finds himself recuperating in the comfortable home of an over-friendly surgeon (Nathan Lane), his uneasy wife (Amy Ryan), and his resentful teenage daughter (Kylie Rogers). The movie Beau Is Afraid is already released on Cinema in the USA and UK and 4K Blu-ray, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and VOD in the USA.

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. A third chapter takes Beau to a fairy tale forest, where a kindly pregnant woman (Hayley Squires) introduces him to a wandering theatre troupe, and where one of its plays turns into a poignant, animated picture-book reverie about the life he might have had.Banksy’s Valentine’s day artwork highlighting violence against women was dismantled just hours after being unveiled, with council officials citing health and safety reasons.