‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Acerbically Hilarious Pandemic Film Is Bracingly Political [Cannes]
Writer/director Ari Aster has now spent his last two films explaining himself. One of the most divisive sequences in “Beau is Afraid” (2023) saw Joaquin Phoenix’s Beau, in a more meditative part of his uncanny adventure, stand up and exclaim that a play he was seeing was all about him — only for that theory to fall apart at the last minute. Why didn’t all the elements fit? Continue reading ‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Acerbically Hilarious Pandemic Film Is Bracingly Political [Cannes] at The Playlist.
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Writer/director Ari Aster has now spent his last two films explaining himself. One of the most divisive sequences in “Beau is Afraid” (2023) saw Joaquin Phoenix’s Beau, in a more meditative part of his uncanny adventure, stand up and exclaim that a play he was seeing was all about him — only for that theory to fall apart at the last minute. Why didn’t all the elements fit?
