Beau Is AfraidLooks Like a Horror Flick for Joaquin Phoenix Only

DirectorAri Asteris know for his critically acclaimed horror filmsHereditaryandMidsommar , but his upcoming film Beau Is Afraid seemingly has a eddy . As its deed of conveyance implies , its main case ( Joaquin Phoenix ) is for sure terrify by the globe … but that world looks far more flaky than threatening , at least as this buck - wild first trailer shows .

There ’s no prescribed synopsis , but when you find out it , I opine you ’ll see why :

1 ) There ’s probably no explicate the film before you watch the entire affair , and 2 ) Aster surely has no desire to adjudicate and explain anything about the motion picture before people see Phoenix travel through a sprawling , more and more fantastical landscape painting for what seems like a decade or more . But while there are sure enough disturbing elements , like whatever ’s going on with Beau ’s mamma from the beginning of the trailer and public violence in the streets , but once Beau steps out of realism affair search comparatively benignant . Besides , who ’s to say whatever the blaze the threatening fibre played by Nathan Lane is n’t as much as fantasy as the cartoonish wonderland Beau wanders through for seemingly yr ?

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However , given this is an Aster photographic film , I experience thing are probably not as straightforward as they seem , and yes , I say that do it thing already do n’t search straightforward at all . Beau Is Afraid also star Nathan Lane , Amy Ryan , Stephen McKinley Henderson , Zoe Lister - Jones , Armen Nahapetian , Parker Posey , and Patti LuPone , which is a hell of a plaster bandage . It ’s currently gear up to hit theaters on April 21 .

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