In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is tasked with bringing the One Ring to Mordor and destroying it. Alongside the way in which, he fights orcs, spiders, and a fish-loving lil freak. Ari Aster sees lots of similarities between the fantasy trilogy and his new film, Beau Is Afraid, which he known as “a Jewish Lord of the Rings, however he’s simply going to his mother’s home.” No phrase on the orcs and spiders, but when it’s something like each Jewish gathering my household has hosted, there will be fish.
A24‘s Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix in a “decades-spanning surrealist horror movie set in an alternate current” about an “extraordinarily anxious however pleasant-looking man who has a fraught relationship together with his overbearing mom and by no means knew his father. When his mom dies, he makes a journey dwelling that includes some wild supernatural threats.” Within the behind-the-scenes video above, Aster, who additionally directed Hereditary and Midsommar, mentioned he’s been fascinated about this movie for 10 years. “For those who pumped a 10-year-old stuffed with Zoloft and had him get your groceries, that’s like this film,” he added.
Beau Is Afraid, which additionally stars Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Form, comes out on April 21.
