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Beau Is Afraid will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 11 via Lionsgate. The 2023 surrealist horror-comedy-drama is available on Digital via A24.
Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) writes and directs. Joaquin Phoenix stars with Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Parker Posey, Kylie Rogers, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Kind.
Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Finally Home: Making Beau Is Afraid
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A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster.
Film after film: Beau Is Afraid (dir. Ari Aster, 2023)
Another masterpiece by Aster, who shifts gears, fascinatingly, with every film. This one comes after massively popular and liked two films, and, for some reason, there's absolute clarity around it not ever approaching these levels. It's not a pop song anymore, though it plays plenty of catchy tunes. As usual, Aster has an amazing cast, led by predictably (which is not a bad thing) charismatic Phoenix, whose strained and exhausted fragility nicely bounces off of his softer and emotionally intense takes in Her and C'mon C'mon. So it's thanks to his take on Beau that the film offers this possibly frustrating but incredibly fascinating chasm: everyone around him does different shades of comedy. Posey, always my favorite player, of whom I cannot turn my eyes away, starts in the immediate soft emotional cadence to eventually turns master-whacky-comic. Ryan and Lane are beautifully hysterical, threatening, emotionally generous, and clueless to what they, as characters, do to Beau, whom they technically want take care of. Kind and particularly Lupone are bolts of dead seriousness, which, due to its pathos, quickly becomes and stops being funny. Lupone should land dozens of similarly rich roles, she's amazing. This film is very rich, it has a beautiful animated sequence in the middle, it's touching, tiring, stifling, and beautiful. I remember craving exactly this from Aronofsky's mother!, but instead I got post-traumatic goosebumps.