‘Beau is Afraid’: release date, cast, trailer and more of the new Ari Aster with Joaquin Phoenix

The movie ‘Beau Is Afraid’ arrives in 2023 to blow our minds, something to which director Ari Aster (responsible for ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’) has accustomed us. With many versions of Joaquin Phoenix leading the cast, it may be one of the most talked about releases of the year. We review everything we know about ‘Beau Is Afraid’: release date, synopsis, trailer and more details.

for now, the first trailer has left us with our mouths open:

Psychological terror reigns in the first images of this Ari Aster film, originally titled ‘Disappointment Blvd’. Along with the trailer, A24 unveiled the official poster for the film, which shows Phoenix’s character Beau at various ages, from his pre-teens to his old age. As the actor prepares to return to being Joker in the sequel ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ with Lady Gaga, he seems to have saved an ace up his sleeve to once again be the most irreverent arthouse gossip this year.

‘Beau Is Afraid’: release date

There is still no release date for ‘Beau Is Afraid’ in Spain, although we do know that It will be released on April 21 in the United States..

‘Beau Is Afraid’: synopsis

The official synopsis for ‘Beau Is Afraid’, unsurprisingly, leaves us wanting more: the film is about “a paranoid man who embarks on an epic odyssey to return home to his mother“Of course, after seeing the trailer, it is clear to us that the mysteries of his story are going to be guarded with suspicion. And it should be like that: if Ari Aster has shown us anything, it is that his cinema is better when we see it without knowing anything , completely blind and prepared to surprise us.

To expand with a little more information about the cast, the film has been described as “an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time”and Aster has described the film in some of his statements as a “four-hour nightmare comedy”.

Aster previously directed a short film called ‘Beau’, about a man who experiences sinister and surreal events when he loses his keys on his way home to meet his mother. Direct inspiration? It has not been an admitted reference by the director at the moment, but it seems clear that there is a connection.

‘Beau Is Afraid’: cast

as we said, Joaquin Phoenix is ​​the absolute protagonist of ‘Beau Is Afraid’. Sure, it looks like he’ll be playing various versions of himself over time, so we get to see, once again, the acting chops of the Oscar-winning ‘Joker’ actor.

Together with him, they form the cast Nathan Lane (‘Only murders in the building’), Stephen McKinley Henderson (‘Dune’), Patti LuPone (‘American Horror Story’), amy ryan (‘The Office’), Kylie Rogers (‘Home Before Dark’), Denis Menochet (winner of the Goya 2023 for Best Actor for ‘As Bestas’), haley squires (‘The Essex Serpent’), michael gandolfini (son of James Gandolfini from ‘The Sopranos’ and protagonist of the prequel ‘Holy criminals’), Zoe Lister-Jones, Richard Kind and parker posey.

‘Beau Is Afraid’: Official Poster

That’s how disturbing it looks Official poster of ‘Beau is Afraid’ in the original version: