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‘Beau Is Afraid’: The Most Audacious and Polarizing Movie of the Year, With Ari Aster!

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The Intensity of Anxiety

The film is actually about strictly from one character's perspective, the intensity of anxiety. If you don't want to watch a person be tortured for three hours, you might not want to watch this movie. "I think he's interested in ambivalence and contradiction," says director Joaquin Phoenix.

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