Movie Reviews: 'Beau Is Afraid' Often Feels Like A Threehour Panic Attack
Beau is scared - it's not worth it.
Beau's Afraid is both intriguing and confusing, a new three-hour story from Midsommar director Ari Astaire, now in theaters, about a nightmarish journey through the themes of motherhood, fear and tragedy. Think Luis Buñuel's "Lord of the Rings" style, with its snappy "after hours" humor and Thomas' "You can't go home anymore" nod, and you'll quickly catch up with Wolff and Bowen. A real trip.
Joaquin Phoenix stars as the title character, a neurotic drug addict whose father dies while pregnant with his child. This loss changed his life forever and left him lost in a sea of uncertainty.
"I'm so sorry for what your father did to you," says his mother Mona (Patti Lappon).
A missing plane, a new arrest warrant and a home invasion change Beau's already turbulent life forever. He begins an odyssey to get home for his mother's funeral, but circumstances keep failing him. First, she reunites with troubled suburban nanny Roger and Grace (Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan), their troubled daughter (Kylie Rogers), and a war veteran suffering from PTSD.
Then she manages to escape into the arms of a traveling experimental theater company; It takes you into a story of quest, struggle and consolation from where the story takes place.
Finally he returns home covered in blood to face his past, his fears and the horrors that shroud his life.
Be Afraid is a multi-layered, symbolic and iconic film that deals with the effects of loss and grief. The previous films 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' were also familiar spaces for Esther, dealing with the trauma between generations.
But the new film is normal.
This is a real-time psychological drama that explores how Beau's trauma shaped every aspect of his life and led to his downfall. It's a harrowing journey as Bow slowly loses touch with reality and shapes the film's narrative.
Esther is sly about Beau's state of mind. Previous films were visually shocking and featured images more in line with traditional horror. Beau is scared has an inconspicuous horror. He is more concerned about the psychological confusion, fear and anxiety that Boon causes. To convey this, Phoenix plays the character as a shell in an inside show. The film revolves around him and his state of mind, but he is a reactive character, reacting to actions rather than instigating them. It's fun and passionate work, but Chauncey Gardiner's lonely nature makes it hard to swallow.
The volatile nature of the real world is Beau's overarching fear that audiences might understand, relate, or sympathize with her, but the subtlety exhibited by Phoenix's childish performances, especially in the film's second half, diminishes .
Beau Is Scared is the weirdest movie on Esther's already acclaimed IMDB page. It may not be everyone's definition of a film, but you can't go wrong with its unbiased perspective. Finding meaning in life, healing trauma, releasing fear, recovering from a leftover pod (yes! you read that right) just doesn't feel good. Instead, swing over fences and explore their grandiose emotional thoughts, even if they often feel like three-hour terror attacks.
It is inspiring film that meets the unexpected, the unpredictable and ultimately the inexplicable.
Rating: 3 stars
The action in Ghosted, the new spy comedy now streaming on Apple TV+, begins with the beautiful love story between Cole and Sadie, played by Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, and the only question: is stalking romantic or obsessive? ? Do we only meet once around the world to ask for a second date?
Cole and Sadie meet at a farmer's market where he runs a flower stand. It wasn't love at first sight. They got off to a bad start when he wanted to sell a facility that needed a lot of maintenance, even though he was often on business trips and often for months at a time.
"Who can be indifferent to living beings?" churches.
Guilty and violent, he meets her while driving and they immediately go on a date. What starts as an afternoon coffee quickly turns into a late-night hangout, leading Cole to believe he has found his soulmate. While she was sleeping he took a picture of her in bed so he could take care of her for a while.
When she didn't return the message, he decided to track her via the microchip in her fan, which he had conveniently left in his wallet the night before. It seems he is in London.
"It doesn't scare me," she said cheerfully, "it just doesn't have an international calling plan."
Although he didn't leave the country — fake, his father says, "was conceived in Ontario" — he jumped on a plane to start the fire he'd started the night before.
But instead of being greeted with hugs and kisses, he's caught in a hail of bullets when it's revealed that Sadie is a CIA agent on a dangerous mission.
"I can't believe you kidnapped and tortured me after a date," she said.
He suggests that after getting to know her for a few hours, fly across the ocean to meet her.
"This is not passive behavior," she said.
As Cole is mistakenly identified as a spy, you'll witness international intrigue, heavy weaponry and some simple romantic complications.
Ghosted, which reunites Evans and De Armas after Knife and The Gray Man, is an action comedy in the vein of Romancing the Stone. An estranged couple must rely on each other for survival as they constantly fall in and out of love.
This movie works well when it doesn't take itself too seriously. When it comes to the idea that "it's never wrong to protect the ones you love", it's fun to see Captain America play against the boy - Cole's own sister calls him "creepy, needy, awkward and delusional " - and De Armas falls into full swing. . Meanwhile, screenwriters Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick, best known for writing Deadpool and Zombieland, continue to make Ghosted, which fuses action, adventure and romance into one delight.
Ghosted, which is two hours long, goes overboard with its many MCU cameos, poised for sequels and reads charm from its leads.
Knight: 3 and a half stars
"Chevalier," a new biopic about Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) by composer and violinist Joseph Bolong, now in theaters, opens with an 18th-century ballad version. The main character, a wealthy white slave owner and son of a Senegalese slave, shouts "Play Violin Concerto No. 5!" while jumping up and down the stage. Wolfgang Amadeus challenges Mozart (Joseph Prowen) to a violin duel.
The two clash in The Devil Went Down to Georgia, until it becomes clear that Boulogne is an exceptional talent, establishing the film's premise: that he is the most talented classical-era musician you've never heard of. .
The young musician, whose father came from the French colony of Guadeloupe, went to boarding school, where he excelled in violin and fencing. His competitive side moves him in French society despite the restrictions imposed on him by a racist society that values his talents but socially rejects him totally because of the color of his skin.
The performances of King Louis and Marie Annette (Lucy Boynton) earned him several royal honors and the title of Chevalier, the British equivalent of a knighthood for the French. The queen persuaded him and other composers to write an opera. Whoever does the best work not only does the work of the Paris Opera, but is also called the director of the company.
To win the competition and earn the respect of the French elite, Boulogne enters with the singer Marquise Marie-Josephine (Samara Schmane), despite warnings from her wayward husband, the Marquis de Montalembert (Martin Chokas), to stay away from the stage.
As the French Revolution loomed, Boulogne's ego and ambition threatened his future.
A musical — think soap opera over an opera — Chevalier takes a lot of liberties with the biography of Boulogne, but the character is so compelling that the film overcomes its weaknesses.
Harrison, most recently seen as BB King in "Elvis," brings plenty of charisma and some very convincing violins to the role. It is a performance that enriches a well-written script and helps the audience understand why Boulogne has permeated French society. His heroism would ultimately be his undoing, but Harrison's beautifully crafted performance inspires sympathy for a man who is given so little in real life.
More high-end production designs and more body than you can swing a violin bow at to grace the screen and bring the moment to life.
Chevalier is a historical work, but the exploration of the impact of racism on history is very contemporary.
