Beau Is Afraid
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix- Patti LuPone
- Amy Ryan
Nathan Lane- Kylie Rogers
Denis Ménochet
Parker Posey- Zoe Lister-Jones
- Armen Nahapetian
- Julia Antonelli
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Richard Kind
Keywords
- dark comedy
- grief
- fear
- trauma
- childhood trauma
- therapist
- surrealism
- satire
- crude humor
- complex
- mother son relationship
- attic
- maniac
- funeral
- paranoia
- existentialism
- orgasm
- nightmare
- suicide
- overbearing mother
- birth
- death of mother
- entrepreneur
- oedipus complex
- munchausen syndrome by proxy
- anxiety disorder
- absurdist
- unwarranted guilt
- kafkaesque
- simulated sex
Hereditary
Midsommar
Eddington