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

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The Freudian Theme of the Film

The film plays a wonderfully on a big screen, but it probably won't be fully appreciated until it is like microanalyzed. I think there are all these like Ray Liotta references in the film. There's a lot of very, very stupid stuff to, to find on the walls in the background. And one of the things I'm most excited about with this IMAX release is that when I was watching it down in IMAX,  I was kind of heartbroken to find in the edit that they were just really hard to see. It encourages a different kind of engagement where you're really scanning the screen and trying to find all those things.

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