It’s a big swing and even bolder execution from a filmmaker who dives head first into both with complete abandon, and that approach is always going to draw lines in the sand. Though I feel good about what I think “Eddington” is trying to say, I’m still not entirely sure what to do with a film like this.
Browsing: Ari Aster
“Beau is Afraid” is a surrealist episodic journey through vibrant nightmarish hellscapes, a film that purposefully distorts its POV to manifest the sense of dread and anxiety beyond their thematic framework and into the literalization of its own bizarre odyssey.
I just got back from seeing Ari Aster’s new, drug addled psychological horror film, Midsommar, and let me just say,…
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