Ari Aster on Beau Is Afraid
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- Director Ari Aster discusses Beau Is Afraid with FLC Assistant Programmer Maddie Whittle. The film recently screened as the conclusion to our series, Ari Aster Selects, a curated selection of films handpicked by Aster himself to complement the director’s highly anticipated new feature. Learn more: www.filmlinc.org/series/ari-a...
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Parker Posey, and Patti LuPone.
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I love how Ari looks like a normal and everyday man when he just made three demented cinematic rollercoaster rides.
Fr bro looks like someone’s accountant or IT guy
I saw that comment too💀
so annoying when fanboys exaggerate and speak in absolutes. of all time!!? 🥴 Relax guy.
@@badado no he right tho
Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) told me at WonderCon that _”artists known for gruesome adult horror are always happy go luck normal and well adjusted. It’s the ones known for children’s entertainment that have issues.”_
Listening to this interview is as maddening as watching the movie
The scene where Beau is watching the play and says this is my story is something we are all doing when we are watching a movie, especially this one
Yep.
Nope. Certainly NOT especially with THIS movie.
Some people just need therapy more than others. Listening to Ari Aster in several interviews draws me to the conclusion that he might need therapy.
The way Ari speaks is wishy-washy as if not certain in what he's saying. Even his body language is off in this interview or maybe it's just those uncomfortable cheap chairs. Lol
But my name is Beau, my mum is a Jew and a narcist with the initials MW.
@@GOLDENFLYWARRIOR
How is he being wishy washy?
@@GOLDENFLYWARRIOR I think you just don’t understand or maybe dont like how artistic ppl try to convey what they’re thinking
saw this movie in the imax and lost my mind. loved every second of it.
Nice.
How long did you stay in your seat after the movie ended? For me it was 10mins
@@agentcouger626 You stayed longer than most of the people in that amphitheater!
After watching all of Ari's interviews I have come to realize the best questions to ask him are long vague and abstract questions, and to just let him talk
Some of those weren’t even questions
Well, he is the Fellini of movies.
@@zachlaney6344 wouldn’t Fellini be the Fellini of movies already?
@@zacharylaney46 thanks
thanks for this dialogue guys, laughing here
The fact that there is so much love for this film gives me hope in humanity
It does raise awareness around these topics surrounding these areas of art and genes and madness and mothers among others
I love how Ari can't even explain it - it's so intricate and exact, yet it's unexplainable and fascinating. You keep doing you, Ari, we love it!!
I love Midsommar and Hereditary but man, Beau is Afraid is on a whole other level. Movie has grown on me lmaoo
Its a multi layered experience
the balance of comedy and tragedy elevates it
Comedy = tragedy + time
Great movie, I still can’t get some of those images out of my head
Closer and closer to the David Lynch things... Aspecially third season of Twin Peaks ... When you have some line of emotionions... Immitaeted by art... But true in some inner way... And combinateted in a line of something touching then evil... Then funny and so on...
But I still feel like Lynch give more lifeabilty to his spaces... You can watch that sometimes strange,asbsurdic spaces and characters for an endless time... Just even not doing anything
Inner rules ... Like a clockwork... Some figures a making all the things they have to make... Over and over again..
(First act of Beau is closer to that...I thing... His run among the fears feels like daily routine)
I’m autistic and to me the movie felt like the most accurate representation of life as an autistic person (with a gaslighting mom with a personality disorder). The way everyone behaves so irrationally and get angry at you for no reason. And it feels like everyone else knows something that you don’t all the time. I suspect Aster is autistic but is undiagnosed or hadn’t disclosed it yet. His brother is, and as neurodevelopmental disorders are hereditary, it stands to reason he could be.
That's cool. I mean cool that you got that out of it, not cool that life actually feels like that.
I guess it's also possible that he's close enough with this brother to have gleaned an idea of what life can feel like for him? I wouldn't be that surprised if he were on the spectrum somewhere.
Where’d you hear that about his brother? Very curious
I’m autistic and I do not feel like it’s an autistic representation but instead one of anxiety and depression as well as pain. I don’t associate misery with autism but very much anxiety
Wow- this is a great perspective thanks for sharing. I related to this film heavily too, for more OCD and anxiety reasons. Ari is one of a kind.
i really related to it too with pretty severe ADHD, sensory and auditory processing disorders. so much of the time i feel confused and out of control of what’s happening in my own life. when this movie was described in a review as a ‘3 hour panic attack’ and i found it relatable i was like damn
Being someone with severe anxiety disorder (which often makes it hard for me to make my own decisions) and gaslit and manipulated by my parents while growing up (constant feelings of guilt over things I didn't actually do were common), I related to this movie quite a bit. I also have nightmare disorder and have bad dreams and nightmares on a pretty regular basis, and felt that Beau Is Afraid really captured the somewhat illogical emotional rollercoaster of a very bad dream. Hereditary is still my favorite Aster film (and one of my favorite horror films of all time), but Beau is still pretty great IMO, and I recommend at least 2 viewings. Some have an issue with the length, but at the 1hr 25min mark, when he enters the forest, due to the complete tonal shift it's a good moment to be able to stop and finish it up later if need be.
He’s the best film maker right now.
Aris aster and Robert eggers are the best directors and will continue to be for a long time!!!
Eggers is the technical best and Aster is the most willing to fuck with the audience
Ari Aster & Jordan Peele
Him, Robert Eggers, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele are the Big Four
@@tatianalekka1086 the best North American*
Best movie of 2023 W 🔥
Not even halfway through! We’ve got Oppenheimer in July and Dune 2 in November
Well yes
Self indulgent, meandering tripe. Best movie my arse!
I'm absolutely blown away that the guys from The Wolf House (a movie that I adore) worked on the theatre sequence of Beau Is Afraid, that's so cool
The Wolf House is great
i think what really shows when someone is way smarter than others is that their jokes, what they think is just something funny, is a groundbreaking realization or metaphor for normal people. ari aster really is a genius in my opinion
The part when he said it's supposed to end where it starts had me staring blankly at my ceiling for a few minutes
That's why he didn't want to say that
Immediately thought that at the end. !Spoiler! It's like Beau was back in the womb and the audience could literally watch the play all over again and watch Beau possibly make the same mistakes again. It's an endless loop of a movie.
It reminded me of The Wall album by Pink Floyd. If you listen very closely, at the very end it says "so this is..." and at the very beginning "where we came in."
Maddie is the only interviewer I've seen during this entire press run for this film who asked quality questions. Great job! Loved this.
I can’t get passed her saying “sort of” so much. I wish she were a bit more deliberate.
she was so scattered brain damn i skipped over her parts at points
nothing of insight was asked.
@@30yearsoldiam1 lol Ari is 1,000x worse
This movie feels like his INLAND EMPIRE. I think it's his best so far.
Couldn't agree more. Ever since I saw it I can't stop thinking about it. The scene with the phone call to the house (with the ups guy) is absolutely panic attack central.
Beau Is Afraid is really an art piece, must be experienced once! Do it in theatres! I loved it with the retrospective of Ari's thinking
Seriously my favorite movie its an amazing masterpiece in artistic expression and really made me feel the emotions of beau from a first person perspective ive never felt in a movie before
The street he lives on, with all of it's moving parts and the way it was filmed, the first night we see Beau running to his apartment, gave me strong Greenaway vibes.
I always thought that horror and comedy didn't mix. Ari changed my mind. It's like he took his trademark hyper-realistic trauma horror (which he used sparingly in Hereditary and Midsommar) and pushed it to the limit where it became comedic. I can't even imagine what he would do next
I’m glad this is 35 minutes, but it also seems like very little was said. Most of the questions were several minutes long and Ari responded with mostly “um…. Yeah…. Uhhh…”
It made this kind of tough to watch at times
You try and explain this movie its extremely vague so explaining it in clear literal terms is very difficult on top of which hes very young and will likely improve later on
He is making a movies ... Audiovisual art..
He understand that it is not right to put it into the words . Cause it can't work in words. Cause if you can retell and keep meanings... You can not spend money and time on A movie .. and keep as a book or something
It is interesting and valuable to make this things In A movie that can't be done any other way
And yes it is pretty clear that he understand that he can spoil something in the feeling of this multilayered and widely interpretaitable images if he put a sticker of his words on it
I had a really negative, gutteral reaction to this movie at first. I loved Hereditary and Midsommar so much but I felt like this one was a lot harder to process because it was so frenetic and crazy. I think that watching the interviews helps give me a better sense of what he was going for. I almost feel like this film needs to be seen twice. As an aspiring filmmaker I look up to this guy a lot, and I really admire how bold his vision is.
I don't know... For some reason second time is not quite working...for me...
With Midsommar there are some enigmatic details that you can explore. But I don't feel that in highly influence main meanings, whatever do you feel it like a huge twist and manipulatation or not.
Here in Beau...
I watched it second time. And really nothing happend... No puzzle came togather cause I feel it is not puzzled. Mostly it have a series of intense emotions that we have in a line... Emotions edeting ...(a bit Lynch style maybe )
But that spaces and emotions... They are mostly conceptional...
Yes as he said main charachter Beau is the main base ... That is real... Grounded... Psychological understandiable... In this cartoon around him
So yes ... Line of scenes, stages, spaces
Are a bit pure concepts
You don't get more of them over times of watching..
As I feel
Best act and space...for me it the House of this wierd family....
It looks like some very common ... Very understandiable genre...
But same way have this perfect rithm of nonstopping background movement... And hidden absurdic logic that only family members took as something simple
(Like a classical absurd plays )
But a lot if life brought into this... More then in pure choreography of street people in the first act .
My boy Ari said a whole lot of nothing in that interview and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way
“yea… uhmmm.. idk it just…. yea”
I don't know, I'd say he said a lot here that wasn't really in any other interviews. Regarding this lineup of films in his Lincoln Center selection, he elaborated on how important they were, or if they were afterthoughts rather than conscious inspiration (often giving specific reasons that the films were in the lineup). He also spoke about his intended meaning for the play scene, as well as his interpretation of the film as an ourobouros snake.
Just saw it for the second time and laughed a lot. First time I was just trying to figure out what was going on. This is a great and funny movie.
Man, it was SO damn funny the second time!
i just watched the previous ari aster interviews from this channel for the first time a couple hours ago, incredible timing!
They’re great!
I’m not saying this is my favorite film of the year so far, but it is certainly the most INTERESTING movie I have seen all year…
I really enjoyed this movie probably due to my mommy issues. That disorganized attachment style hits real deep.
Eraserhead is the most logical comparison, to me. Is there another film that y’all think is more comparable?
Beau is much funnier I think but the abstraction and fear-centric nightmare device seems to work very similarly. And come to think of it, Eraserhead is also funny and I think that the thing I appreciate the most about both films is that- if the assumption is that we are in a nightmare realm then I have a very vivid image of what these men’s real lives and internal lives are really like, maybe even more so than if the films were actually ‘about’ there lives. They are both at a crux. Beau, I think is on the brink of a breakthrough with his therapist and he is very single and with mommy issues. Whereas Henry Spencer is married (maybe regretfully) with a child on the way (again maybe regretfully). This concept gives intention to all of the surreal elements.
I enjoyed reflecting on Beau the next day and recognizing what it is I remember and how I remember it, much like a dream or nightmare right after waking.
Eraserhead is a great comparison. I hadn't thought of that. For me, the immediate comparisons were Scorsese's After Hours, Powell and Pressberger's A Matter of Life and Death, and the Coen brother's A Serious Man.
Eraserhead is a good one. After watching I was thinking Brazil, Synecdoche New York, After Hours
The dont hug me im scared tv show is the only thing that i know of thats even remotely similar with its surrealism and horror elements
Maybe the trial
Synechdoche, New York and I'm Thinking of Ending Things
the more i think about beau is afraid the more i like it :') I just love aris attempt at creating new experiences and he definitely succeeded
Don't worry, you're not obligated to like it just because it's "new" (and essentially a vanity project for him)...
@@chazzmaniadevilll Your depth of analysis and authenticity is rare, and (I think in this case) distinct from/higher than the flood of Pavlovian acclaim.
Beau is afraid was fantastic loved it saw it twice
I saw it twice too!
I need to see it again too!
Yeap, Ari did it again. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Just saw the film. It blew
me away, what a surreal trip it was.
As I understood it’s all about our deep fears and anxieties, which stop us from moving forward in life. It’s like a story on what if they would become a reality.
Facts 🤝
It blew through the bag
I was waiting for this interview!🥳
It’s amazing how an artist fumbling with his words can speak more clearly than a politician with a teleprompter.
The film is obviously an allegory for the establishment keeping control of citizens thru fear. Pharma, currency, food, water, surveilence, sex, court system, and more are used in the film as a weapon to control beau much like we see today in our lives. Tons of social issues are hit on as well, gun control, social media, veterans mistreatment, american dream, and much more. In this brilliant film. I owe it another watch where i could really break more down.
I havent seen anyone explore this side of this brilliant film. Beau is afraid will age like a fine wine.
Not only is the story highly relateable but this is exactly the kind of film that I love to see. Bravo
I want to see him and David Lynch converse
Ha. If this was a David Lynch film all of his answers to "can you elaborate?" would be "No"
David Lynch is still better..
@@DEMfilmsJWalsh k
I feel like Lynch would absolutely love this film, but I also feel like he will never even hear about it lol
Yes..yes.. keep writing in this Comments that it is much closer to Lynch style of storitelling... The edeting of emotions I can call it... Bring us from one episode to another ...emetaiting some logical connection ... But truelly just taking us to the line of something touching, then absurdistic funny, then evil... Then
And yes I can say that Lynch's spaces ...have more inner life in them... Moves by their own inner rules .. and can be watched and rewached as a loop
Here... A spaces a bit more ... Conceptional... Mind-constructed... Cold.
But anyway first time Ari really takes us through this dream very immersive
“It’s going to eat its own head.”
That it did, Ari. That it did.
cant wait to finish this video, THANK YOU FOR THIS!
Going to see it in 30 minutes! Literally can’t wait
Anyone else reminded of The Wall? Same theme of the domineering mother. Also a closed loop.
The movie is like when your problems reach maximum you breakdown and the ridiculousness of life becomes more visible. The underlying truth of the meaningless of existence.
God damn me and my social anxiety. I love all of aster's film's. And would live to go to see this in cinema. But the fucking anxiety.
Rather ironic, when I think about this too much.
Watched it last night and don't get all the hate ot got on release. What a cool film. Vague at times but very surreal and visceral definitely enjoyed the ride.
i love how ari made this movie for a very specific portion of his audience
now moving forward he will make all kind of different stuff
Thanks for your insight, ChatGPT!
i don't think he made it for any specific audience since he said he began working on it so long ago. even in the short film from 2011 you can tell it was meant to represent anxiety & paranoia. the theme is already in his work, regardless of when it was made. this just happened to lean more into surrealism, but again the idea was already there since 2011.
huge huge fan + hes been a big influence on me - in saying that, he really should correct his posture. it may seem trivial but a hunched-position can (long term) lead to serious health issues
I love the Lincoln Center interviews because you get a really raw take that draws questions from something people just witnessed but good lord can you guys work on getting hosts that are a little more succinct with their questions? I feel like every time I watch these I watch people stumble through their own thoughts for a minute straight until they’re finally able to get these questions out. I always feel so bad for the people being interviewed while you watch their brain try and decode what the question actually was in this jumbled paragraph sized ramble from the hosts. KISS. Keep it simple stupid.
Love aster he inspires me sm
That laugh @16:24
I don’t like how Ari said he thought of this movie as “blowing up all 3 of those movies” as if he doesn’t want to go with that creative vision …. Meanwhile I want that exact thing but more from him in that way …. They are all filmed so anxiety inducing like nothing I’ve ever seen before and I hope he continues to create this level of greatness … to me he’s the next Kubrick
"but uh yeah i dont know"
Masterpiece movie ❤
the movie was so dark, hard for me to get through...but can't deny it was shot so beautifully and had some really great shots. but yeah will not be watching again lol
a man in a doubt... just let him makes his gottam movies! the film its absolutly poetry
Just watched on psychedelic drugs…. Mind blown… 🤯
Does anyone know the film “pairings” that he chose for this?
The interviewer mentioned "profoundly unpredictable" and I think that perfectly sums up Ari Aster's films. It's an oxymoron that makes a lot of sense if you've seen his work.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR 4 NOW
I’ll take Ari Aster over Chris Nolan any day.
There's saying that states - do not give an actor any more direction than could be printed on a postage stamp. The same can go for interviewers asking overly wordy questions.
Ari’s energy has been very odd with this film verses his others. I can see him saying I’m done with interviews soon, I hope not.
FIlmmakers don't have the luxury of not promoting their films. Even the artsiest of them have to play by the industry rules. What I'm saying is he won't quit interviews because he can't afford to.
@@vivena9 Terrence Malick is an example of one who doesn’t do interviews
@@illz47 That's an exception to the rule. Beau is Afraid is the most expensive movie A24 has bankrolled so far. Ari won't drop off the face of the earth.
Ari Aster the master
He deserves to be rimmed, perpetually, for making this movie
This movie was funny as shit
I feel like even Ari didn’t know wtf he made lol
He is making a movies ... Audiovisual art..
He understand that it is not right to put it into the words . Cause it can't work in words. Cause if you can retell and keep meanings... You can not spend money and time on A movie .. and keep as a book or something
It is interesting and valuable to make this things In A movie that can't be done any other way
And yes it is pretty clear that he understand that he can spoil something in the feeling of this multilayered and widely interpretaitable images if he put a sticker of his words on it
What's he saying?
At 10:22, the interviewer starts spoiling two of his other films. I'll watch this this when Ive seen them then.
Uh, um, well, uh, I guess, uh, I’m not, um, what to, uh…
Beau is Afraid is the new THE GREASY STRANGLER!
Bullshit artist!
When will we have Beau's father origin story?
Never been this early 😂🎉
"full of fear but not eliciting fear."
Notice how he changed agency to courage. He KNOWS that Beau’s entire life was manipulated, but still purposely frames him as a loser. This I don’t understand. It’s like he genuinely is fighting against the themes of his own movie.
I never seen a interview with more fumbling, attempting to come up with a cogent question and Ari fumbling, attempting to answer without revealing to much about the demons rattling around in his head. The film is totally unique, infuriating, so over the top it's funny, and impossible to forget. The biggest question remains, what will he come up with next?
"i wasnt thinking about genre" MY ASS
I watched the movie in complete shock and horror and just know that im thinking it as funny, and it is like... how
This movie - for me - jumps the shark in the third act. It has so much going for it - but they deflate the entire movie for a life-size p&&n.
Yeah I don’t know.. it’s uh.. I don’t know.. yeah it’s just… well I don’t know I mean I tried to really uh you know… whatever.. it’s…. Yeah but but.. um and… in some ways, again.. but um yeah,, it’s it’s again I don’t know it was it was about a feeling my way thru it.
The first 40 minutes.... my god, brilliant ... the rest not so much.
Only 30 minutes😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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These questions are so leading, it’s very uncomfortable. Props to him for not caving.
Ari Aster wont reveal his Kafkaesque influences, it gives it away too much.
The truth is he was having a hard time answering the questions because she kept asking bad questions 🤦🏽♂️
No wonder he doesn’t like talking about beau. These questions are brutally stupid.
Man.. not a great interview lol. I wanted more in depth thoughts of this crazy movie. I also wanna know how autobiographical was this?
It’s probably as autobiographical as any other movie ever made by a writer/director.
@@schmutzonya5659 Yeah i know it is but I wanna know anything specific. And wanna know more in depth of this movie. Like what was real, what wasn't. I really wanna know more of Ari's childhood haha. There's a million questions to be asked about this movie and i felt A LOT didn't get answered. FYI I loved Beau is Afraid. Ari is 3 for 3 in my opinion.
He’s not giving you that, on purpose. It is whatever experience it gave you. To explain everything is to take your experience of it away from you in a sense.
@@jadenwaz9585 Yeah i understand that I just wanted something more than what we got in this interview.
Completely agree with this, but from what I’ve read a lot of his influence isn’t rooted from family trauma, as he mentions he has a good relationship with all his family. This being said, an in depth convo around what this movie “can” be is so needed vs very high level conversations like this, as much as he says it doesn’t mean much…I know there’s a inner thread that makes this movie make more sense (still absolutely loved it)
It must be very embarrassing for Ari to talk about a film that feels like eavesdropping on a feature length therapy session
Just say its Kafkaesque ari jesus Christ
She's so immersed in the trees, narrative, punitive detail there's no comprehension of the forest. I feel badly for Ari
i can’t believe they got shrek to interview ari
It looks like he honestly thought it would just be funny. Which has a sadistic undertone I find disturbing. That movie is 3 hours of trauma dumping, as the kids say. What amazes me is the amount of money and resources that went onto making it.
Blah, blah, “it’s art”,,.though it’s more than that. Every movie is a virus that’ll program you. So who thought this virus should be made and shown? Think about that.
More like Joaquin is afraid 😞
Unbearably awkward holy fuck, are these adults? Film´s pretty neat.
Jesus this interviewers question is NOT for the feint of heart. She asks such a densely layered and thought provokingly introspective question without knowing whether the director is even in the mindspace to answer and you can feel in sigh he knew he was not in for a "going through the motions" kinda night. You gotta sit up on this one.
I feel like she’s talking for half the interview! Like girl just shut tf and ask a question? He doesn’t even know what to say to most of them, because they’re not even questions, he spends the majority of interview correcting her sucky observations. I feel bad for her she wasted her opportunity to sit down with one of best directors of our time. Plane Jane with her crunch bars at it again!
Listening to him talk about his film is almost as painful as watching it.
humor??? really???
When did Ari decide to steal Ethan Coen's whole steez?
What do you mean?
Elaborate? I think I get what you mean but Ari is merely inspired by Coen’s tropes (if anything) and his material is so far from ANYTHING Coen’s style
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Wow a very poor interviewee.. uh.. um.. yeah so uh… and sort just… uh.. like in some ways it felt like.. uh.. you know in some ways.. and so yeah.
Joaquin can do no wrong in my eyes...genius actor. To me, his performance merits awards. Unfortunately, the gratuitous distasteful nude scenes are not necessary. We get the chaos without it.
It’s necessary. Lots of fears and anxiety connects to sexuality and genitalia especially with youngsters