Beau knows psychodrama.
Director Ari Aster's "Beau Is Afraid," for all its baffling, boffo, audacious, disturbing, tortured, ambitious, demented, confounding, hilarious and sublimely uncomfortable imagery, is ultimately a thin character study of its slumped-shouldered protagonist and his guilt-laden relationship with his domineering mother.
But Aster's deliriously bonkers vision and his sheer willingness to go there, wherever exactly there might be, make it an admirably dumbfounding journey. This much is certain: There is currently no other movie like it, there hasn't been a movie like it for a long time and there's not likely to be another movie like it for a long time to come.
