Beau Is Afraid

…Aster released his third feature, Beau Is Afraid, a sprawling, nearly three-hour dark comedy starring Joaquin Phoenix as an anxious middle-aged man trying to return home after his mother’s death. Some critics admired the film’s ambition and elaborate, dreamlike sequences, but overall it received a tepid response. Aster, who variously…

…he starred in Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid as an anxious loner navigating his chaotic past and present. Also that year Phoenix assumed the title role, and Vanessa Kirby was cast as Joséphine, in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a biopic about the legendary French emperor.