Beau Is Afraid / Director
Ari Aster
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Was Beau Is Afraid a flop?
The film received generally positive reviews from critics but was a box-office bomb, grossing only $11 million. Phoenix received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.
What was the point of Beau Is Afraid?
The film is about the way life can be an accumulation of failures that prove to be too much to bear. One could read Beau as being Aster creating a character based on his own deeply held fears.
What was the budget for Beau Is Afraid?
35 million USD
Aster is still processing the bumpy rollout of Beau Is Afraid. Budget at $35 million, one of A24's most expensive productions to date, the film offered the writer-director of indie horror hits Hereditary and Midsommar a massive canvas, and he took giddy advantage.
Oct 24, 2023
Is Beau afraid about schizophrenia?
What I've concluded is the film is told from the perspective of a paranoid schizophrenic who has an extremely dysfunctional relationship with his mother. Most of what we see in the movie isn't real but are Beau's hallucinations brought out by his anxiety.
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Beau Is Afraid: Directed by Ari Aster. With Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane. Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered ...
Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 American surrealist tragicomedy horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Ari Aster. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the ...
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Posted: Jan 10, 2023
Posted: Jan 10, 2023
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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.
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