<em>Beau Is Afraid</em> Is Your Worst Nightmare, and It’s Wonderful
Beau is cowardly, insecure, and full of psychosexual angst. He’s also a brilliant hero.
by David Sims
Apr 14, 2023
3 minutes
The writer-director Ari Aster has set himself quite the challenge with his new film, . The scale is ambitious, the running time lengthy (about three hours), and the plot difficult to summarize, but maybe the toughest sell is the personality of the main character, Beau Wassermann (played by Joaquin Phoenix). He is a paragon of passivity, a man whose worries follow him wherever he goes and make even simple tasks preternaturally impossible to execute. He is a cartoonish
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