OUT 19 MAY CINEMAS
From his darkest fears comes the greatest adventure’ so goes the tagline for Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster’s 179-minute follow-up to his landmark 21stcentury horrors Hereditary and Midsommar. With all due respect to the marketing department at A24, rarely has a pithy tagline - and the whimsical, Benjamin Button-esque poster it adorns - done a greater disservice to the substance of a film it purports to represent.
That’s because is an extraordinary rendering of severe clinical anxiety, using the language. But it’s also a deeply funny Freudian head-fuck, laden with Jewish guilt and unresolved mummy issues. Try selling that on a poster.
