‘Beau Is Afraid’ Bets On 900 Screens; Martin Scorsese Calls Ari Aster “Extraordinary” Voice In Cinema – Specialty Preview
deadline.comAfter posting giant per screen numbers at four theaters last weekend, A24’s Beau Is Afraid jumps to 926 for the distributor’s third outing with Ari Aster.
It’s a very different film from his horror favorites Hereditary and Midsommar but one the distributor hopes will cement the director’s place as a modern auteur.
According to one influential fan, it has. Martin Scorsese, at a Q&A after an Imax screening in New York this week, called Aster a “unique and powerful” risk taker and “one of the most extraordinary new voices in World Cinema.” Beau is scary in parts, like an opening Scorsese described as “the best scene I’ve seen of its kind.
Absolutely terrifying.” There’s comedy, animation, a conflation of past, present and future, of reality and fantasy, of guilt, innocence, fear and self-loathing and an ongoing play within the movie.
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