![]() Thank you once again to A24 and Sony Pictures UK for the invite and the preview opportunity. It has the function to leave you speechless as the credits rolls and for sure you will be thinking about what you have just watched for days leading after the screening. From graffiti on the squalid apartment walls to the communication between leading characters and also the individual extras in the distance. I cannot wait to sit down and rewatch ‘Beau is Afraid’ continuously and analyse all the brief yet significant details in the background of sequences. It is a surreal and abstract experience that Ari Aster has crafted to the uttermost excellence. As Beau imagines his own entirely new life, viewers are greeted with luminous flourishes of forest trees and chilly mountain landscapes. It is almost completely dream-like as Beau goes on his maladaptive fantasy odyssey to discover his own paths into the future, if he could escape the trauma of his mother’s manipulation. What I must highly praise in this review is the animation sequence in the third chapter. Mariah Carey seemingly fits the peculiar and abnormal events that take place in that bedroom. The scenes that follow are wrongly fervent and can make the viewer experience black comedy with morbid romance. Parker Posey takes on the forward-thinking position as adult Elaine who crosses her path again with Beau. Beau is infatuated with Elaine and continues to be in his distressed adulthood. We are placed onto a grand vacation cruise ship with Mona (Zoe Lister-Jones) and her teen son Beau (Armen Nahapetian), who is equally distracted by his mother’s dictatorial manner but also with a prescient teen girl, Elaine (Julia Antonelli). The story jumps backwards in time as we discover and learn more staggering events into Beau’s childhood, where his presposterous reasons are deep-rooted. ![]() The relationship that she holds with Beau is detestable and covetous as he is moved into her bedroom and essentially has found a devoted and indebted place in the family. ![]() In the same household is a ravenous and despondent teenager (Toni) who is played by Kylie Rogers. Roger is an unambiguous and puissant surgeon where as Grace is a concerned and responsive mother who sees Beau as her third child. Roger and Grace are individually divided in terms of their purpose. Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan (Roger and Grace) portray a bereaved and benevolent couple who aid in Beau’s recovery after kafkaesque and incredulous events take place on the streets of his apartment. Her demeanour on screen is spine-chilling as she radiates an iniquitous atmosphere over Beau’s mobile and in person, which had me fearing for my own security and mental being. Patti LuPone creates a manipulative and obsessive character as Beau’s mother, Mona Wassermann. It is worth shining a spotlight down onto the ensemble cast of ‘Beau is Afraid’ without delving into their purpose of the story. Absurdist comedy and experimental horror is a unique element to the structure that leaves you questioning whether the events that Beau endures are pure fantasy or verisimilitude reality. Nightmarish and melodramatic undertone themes are ambitious but Joaquin Phoenix adds a polarising balance to his performance. The three hour odyssey makes the viewer connect with Beau as we essentially grow up with him and see into his fictionalised future. His physicality was intensifying to witness, as he conquered his own daring stunts. ![]() It was completely riveting to experience Joaquin Phoenix take on such a dishevelled and virtuous role. As soon as we meet Beau with his therapist, his psychological means are troubled with a sense of disquieted trauma he has endured. The camera follows Beau’s distrait emotions that he creates through static thoughts of grief, guilt and desperation to be seen and heard. Joaquin Phoenix is pure and compelling on screen, I would go so far to even reflect that this is his career highlight on screen.
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