Beau Is Afraid. 2023. Directed by Ari Aster.
All Mothers’ Are Not Created Equal.
Beau Is Afraid (2023) is Ari Aster’s blend of cinema that seems to serve as an homage to Synecdoche, New York (2008) written and directed by Charlie Kaufman while showing signs of A Serious Man (2009) written and directed by the Coen Brothers. Joachim Phoenix (Beau Wassermann) is on an epic Homeric journey but more in the Jewish vein. Despite coming from a family of tremendous…