In Beau Is Afraid, Joaquin Phoenix plays a successful entrepreneur who is traumatized by his relationship with an overbearing mother and after her death begins his journey home, facing “surreal threats.”
Judging by the trailer, “Beau Is Afraid” is somewhere on the border between a horror film and an indie adventure film. The first frame shows a disturbing moment of the protagonist’s childhood and the complicated relationship with his mother. Later, the video, accompanied by the rhythmic 80s song Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp, shows Bo, who has already lost his mother and is struggling with nightmares. The audience is told that it is “from the hero’s darkest fears that the greatest adventure is born.”
In addition to Phoenix, the film will feature Nathan Lane (“Murder in One Building”), Patti LuPone (“American Horror Story”), Amy Ryan (“The Office”), Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandol, Zoe Lister-Jones and Richard Kind.
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Joaquin Phoenix, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker, will also reprise his role as Arthur Flack in the sequel Joker: Madness for Two, with Lady Gaga as his company.
Beau Is Afraid, formerly known as Disappointment Blvd, is director Ari Aster’s third collaboration with A24, following the 2018 horror films Reincarnation and Solstice year and 2019, respectively.
The script for “Beau Is Afraid”/Beau Is Afraid was written by Aster together with Lars Knudsen. The premiere of the film is scheduled for April 21, 2023.
