Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 American surrealist tragicomedy horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Ari Aster. [5][6] The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the title character, and also includes a supporting ensemble cast consisting of Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires,...

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 but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

Apr 19, 2023 · Joaquin Phoenix plays a man dreading a visit to see his mother in this latest and most wildly unhinged feature from writer-director Ari Aster (“Hereditary,” “Midsommar”). April 14, 2023

1 day ago · Ari Aster's 'Eddington,' starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and more, is heading to the EFM as A24 eyes a Cannes debut and summer release.

Mar 30, 2023 · With 'Beau Is Afraid,' the writer-director leverages his biggest budget and most-famous stars, including Joaquin Phoenix, to create a three-hour horror-comedy certain to divide its audience.

Apr 21, 2023 · Joaquin Phoenix's character is attacked, tortured, threatened, knocked unconscious and terrorized in Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid. Thirty-six-year-old writer-director Ari Aster makes...

Apr 21, 2023 · A three-hour-long surrealist black comedy, Beau Is Afraid follows the titular Beau (Joaquin Phoenix), a deeply paranoid and anxiety-ridden middle-aged man, on an epic odyssey to get home to...

Apr 21, 2023 · Joaquin Phoenix stars in A24's three-hour sprawl of angst and despair from Ari Aster, the director of Hereditary and Midsommar. It's a "bewildering folly", writes...

Apr 19, 2023 · In Ari Aster’s new film “Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home.

Apr 10, 2023 · Joaquin Phoenix stars with Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane and Parker Posey in Ari Aster's pitch-dark Oedipal horror comedy, 'Beau is Afraid.