MOVIE REVIEW: Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in Beau Is Afraid's bloated Oedipal tale.
, he throws in a decapitation and a death by rocky plummet, but they only serve as a reminder that Aster is trying something new here.is never boring, but yet still manages to be tedious. It's endlessly inventive, but lacks the narrative or conceptual discipline to turn those inventions into something functional. It's rare to watch a film so constantly rip defeat from the jaws of victory, and vice versa.
But at the same time those wild tonal shifts lead to a certain incoherence, like how Phoenix's neurotic catatonia sits uncomfortably with some wild but deliberate over-acting from a woefully miscast Nathan Lane and an ill-served Parker Posey as the adult version of Elaine, whom Beau has been mooning over since a cruise decades earlier. Those flashback sequences set up what could be an emotionally meaningful ending, but instead Aster devolves into a subplot about giant testicles.
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