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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Directed by Ari Aster
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Overview
A man goes on a journey to visit his mother.
Rated R | Length 179 minutes
Actors
Joaquin Phoenix | Patti LuPone | Amy Ryan | Nathan Lane | Kylie Rogers | Denis Ménochet | Parker Posey | Zoe Lister-Jones | Armen Nahapetian | Julia Antonelli | Stephen Henderson | Richard Kind | Hayley Squires | Julian Richings | Bill Hader | Alicia Rosario | James Cvetkovski | Catherine Bérubé | Stephanie Herrera | Bradley Fisher | Peter Seaborne | Michael Esper | Manuel Tadros | Karl Roy | Marc-André Brisebois | Tyrone Benskin | Ernest-James Chuipka | Archie Madekwe | Greg Halpin | Luis Olivia | Charles Hardy | Marie-Michelle Garon | Maev Beaty | Patrick Kwok-Choon | Michael Gandolfini | Théodore Pellerin | Mike Taylor | Luke Alexander James McPhail | Ryan S. Hill | Bentley Hughes | Kwasi Songui | Sylvain Landry | Tristan D. Lalla | Emmanuel Schwartz | Catherine Lemieux | Lily Bird | Arthur Holden | François Paquette | Alexander Bisping | Lucas Gosselin | Joe Cobden | Harry Strandjofski | Anana Rydvald | Isabelle Brabant | Tarah Schwartz | Barry Morgan | David Mamet | John Walsh | Karim Babin | Lee Villeneuve | Steve Newburn | Kayla Dobilas | Gord Robertson | Pamela Iveta | Jason Detheridge | Luz Tercero | Geneviève Marin | Julien Fortin | Marc-André Casavant
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/08/2023 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
Basically a three-hour-long neurotic episode externalized on screen. This and BABYLON are movies I think will eventually be considered classics (if “classics” exist in the future) but are these amazingly catastrophic commercial failures when they were released. Honestly, I was shocked this was still playing in theaters as I thought for sure I was going to miss it.
The weird thing is my 4pm screening was half full. Yes, it was one of the smaller theaters at AMC but I was still kinda shocked. Hilariously, one couple finally walked out about 20 minutes before the end of the film. The two people sitting in my row exclaimed “what the fuck was that?!” loudly after the film was done. I just don’t understand audiences anymore! Did you NOT know what movie you were going to see? Did you NOT see HEREDITARY or MIDSOMMAR? Did you NOT know the runtime before sitting down? What exactly WERE you expecting? I mean, you have to intentionally avoid seeing GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 at the theaters right now to even choose this movie so…
I did find myself focusing on all the background stuff in many scenes because the production designers went crazy with fake posters, graffiti and products that were humorous and weird. No matter what you think of the movie, holy hell does Patti LuPone deliver an amazing performance as Beau’s mom! Her soliloquy was amazing.
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