Of the many words used to describe the writer-director’s previous two films — “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” — timidity was never of them. This is a filmmaker who has se…
Beau may be afraid but Ari Aster certainly isn’t.
Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.” And this, remember, constitutes a sunnier register for Aster. “Beau Is Afraid,” which A24 releases in theaters nationwide Friday, opens not with psychedelics but the pangs of child birth. After some muffled screams and flashes of light, we, as Beau, emerge directly out of the womb. His mother Mona screams because her baby is oddly silent. Flashing forward several decades, the grown but still whimpering Beau Wassermann is sitting with his therapist . It doesn’t take long for his mother to come up in their session.
After Beau, by now completely crazed and stripped of nearly everything he owns, is struck by a truck, Aster’s film proceeds as a nightmarish quest to reach his mother’s house before the funeral service. Clearly defined sections make up the odyssey, each of which offer some disturbing alternative to family life, with a few flashbacks mixed in.
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