
‘Beau Is Afraid’: The Most Audacious and Polarizing Movie of the Year, With Ari Aster!
The Big Picture
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The Anxiety of a Filmmaker
There is a sense that attention spans are growing shorter and distributors are growing, you know, less risk averse. I'm like what is the point of even trying to be an artist on a grand scale in a medium that is basically a wide audience medium if you're not going to go for it? And so chastising people for that literally should be your last reaction, but I guess people can't help themselves. It's been so fascinating to kind of dissect. We're going to do this with Barbie and I'm sure it's going to become a lightning rod because of what Greta means to a lot of people.
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