Patti LuPone also deserves all the Supporting Actor awards next year for her turn as Beau’s monstrous mum – just one horror among so many in a film that crackles with dread and anxiety from the very start. The UK release date for Beau Is Afraid is still out for confirmation, but the film has been scheduled to come out in North America on the 21st April 2023. This will be just in time to land for a little of the summer holiday movie market if it does well at the box office. It’s a long film though and the madness did become exhausting for me a little over half way through. Speaking about Joaquin Phoenix working alongside Ari Aster, co-star Stephen McKinley Henderson told The Hollywood Reporter: "Joaquin and Ari were so simpatico, and they worked together for the whole film.

Elsewhere it has the sharp, psycho-slapstick twang of being smacked in the face with a frying pan while simultaneously stepping on a Freudian rake, or slipping on a Buñuelian banana skin. Tuppence Magazine brings you the biggest and best entertainment news we can find, covering movie release date updates, age rating latest, online rental details - DVD, Blu-ray and digital releases, TV news and features, and computer games tips, walkthrough guides and upcoming releases.

Unsurprisingly, based on the people behind Beau Is Afraid and what we know already just weeks from of its release – including that Joaquin Phoenix passed out on set – this looks intense.

Als Zuschauer taucht man sozusagen ein in die Psyche von Beau und dessen Versuch, sich mit seinen familiären Problemen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart auseinanderzusetzen. However, that wasn’t the case for The Whale, which came out in the US in December, but isn’t due to arrive in the UK until the 3rd February 2023, so there could well be a split run for Ari Aster’s horror comedy too. EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal finalised over the last week, Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has beaten out competitors for UK rights to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, which A24 is releasing in the U. Mark Kermode's review for The Guardian found the film was "sprawlingly picaresque" and "a rambling, labyrinthine, navel-gazing romp.violence There are sequences containing strong violence, including when a man is stabbed repeatedly in the hand with a knife, resulting in bloody detail, recurring sight of a man aggressively pressing his thumbs into the eyes of another man, and a man being repeatedly shot resulting in large spurts of blood. In addition to Phoenix in the lead role, the Beau Is Afraid cast includes Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan as his ankle tag captors, Stephen McKinley Henderson as a member of Beau’s support group, and Armen Nahapetian as the younger version of Beau. Hung so heavily with Freudian symbolism that it features a scene where a man beats a giant penis monster to death, it’s impossible not to see it all as Aster trying to turn his own counselling sessions into something as terrifying, twitchy and accidentally hilarious as only he sees them. Ein bisschen ist es so, als hätten David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson und David Cronenberg gemeinsam Drogen genommen und beschlossen, im Rausch einen Film zu drehen. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.