Many people have noted Beau Is Afraid as a take on Homer’s The Odyssey ... After having a tussle with a homeless man in his bathtub, our protagonist finds himself in a sticky situation.

Aster's full intentions with "Beau Is Afraid" are known only to him — and ... guy who falls on Beau from the ceiling when he's in the bath, for one?) But I actually think your two unified ...

Don’t be afraid to give “Beau” a chance though because there ... Emotional and desperate (and naked in the street after having a relaxing bath fouled up by an intruder), he’s hit ...

“Beau Is Afraid” offers arresting confirmation of ... especially an image of a moonlit ocean that suddenly fades into a rapidly filling bathtub — a striking encapsulation of just how tiny ...

Ideas teased throughout, like a bath-time dream and some memory involving ... life are reframed from Mona’s point of view. In “Beau Is Afraid,” Aster tracks his titular antihero from birth ...

Beau Is Afraid, Aster’s third and latest film ... but his journey is able to eventually begin in earnest after he is attacked in his bathtub, goes running out into the street, is held at ...

With “Beau Is Afraid,” Aster tries something new ... Negligent everyday functions as simple as taking a bath or paying for a bottle of water have a pitiful aura of innocence. Phoenix commits to the ...

“Beau Is Afraid” is the opposite of Lewtonian ... clinging like a spider as Beau takes a bath. One thing leads to another, and soon it is Beau who is left bare-assed, in public, clutching ...

Beau Is Afraid is also, I think ... One is a dream he has, in which he sees his mother trying to undress him for the bath, as a boy, as he refuses. She’s livid at him. The dream expands ...

Truth in advertising: Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is afraid, of nearly everything ... (a hovering figure emerging above you as you take a bath); but also, in a film that features peculiar combinations ...

Aster’s full intentions with “Beau Is Afraid” are known only to him ... who falls on Beau from the ceiling when he’s in the bath, for one?) But I actually think your two unified ...