This wishes it was The Idol, which was far less self-serious, and actually succeeded at points as campy pulp. This is just self-indulgent mush. Don't talk to me on some bullshitty meta level if the characters aren't engaging on a primary level first.
This sort of exposes Trey as a bad director too, which sucks cause I fucked with Krisha a lot. He's doing all his tricks (someone needs to tell him the spinning camera thing doesn't look cool) but none…
Did anyone else just feel a bit like what the fuck is this? This might be one of the most confused movies I’ve ever seen.
You’d think the concept would be a little more… fun. Isn’t this supposed to be an outrageous satire? That’s not the film I watched. Why is it so self-serious, and played so straight? When it’s not going for miscalibrated melodrama, the comedy feels half-assed. The tone is genuinely confusing. Stilted dialogue, scattershot plotting, underdeveloped characters,…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“Why did you lie to me?”
Sometimes I didn’t want to get sick, because I was afraid that my mom would make me feel guilty for it
Like it was my fault
That’s a true story
And that’s this film
Beau is Afraid
A film that’s slowly creeping into my favorites
A film that I get so much sick pleasure from
Riding its tonal shifts
No one is doing tone and genre blending better than Ari Aster right now
No…
