This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’

The director of Midsommar and Herrteredia, Ari Aster, is once again surprising with this surrealist and Gory Western with Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, who premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.

The first two films of Ari Aster, hereditary and medium, were worshiped by fans of the so -called “high horror”, but his third film, Beau of 2023, is afraid, was more divisive: even his fans admitted Sastertic. His fourth film is a little less excessive and exhausting, which makes it more excessive and extended than almost any other movie that is likely to see this year. If Beau is afraid it seemed to be about Aster’s own fears and neurosis, Eddington is the most general fears and neurosis of the United States in 2020. The writer’s director puts everything in his modern symbol of modern black symbol and white privileges, cultural leaders and cryptocurrencies, even if he cannot consider how to dodge all those subjects together. The film would probably have a better leg that had the most focused leg (and shorter), but Aster’s Derganged vision causes most directors to seem shy compared.

His central idea is that all the most controversial points of the United States are in the small desert city of Eddington, New Mexico. Joaquin Phoenix plays a heartburn and barely competent sheriff, Joe, who likes raised anti-racism? Anyway, it has many more personal aggravations to worry about. The mayor of the city, TED (Pedro Pascal), has signed an agreement that allows a fixed technological center to be built near; Joe’s wife, Louise (Emma Stone), has long -standing anxieties that may or may not be related to the mayor; and his mother -in -law Dawn (Deirdre O’Connell) is obsessed with his own deficiencies such as Sheriff and Husband. Joe’s solution to his discontent, which is as bad as everything else is, is to run against Ted as an anti-rockdown candidate in the elections of the Immimento Mayor’s Office.

For a while, both the film and the Sheriff wander slowly and rehearse from one place to another, subject to subject, gender to gender. Eddington is a strange raffle of small town policy and a febrile febrile satire and that can be a discordant combination. You see it with a mixture of separate respect that Aster is marking issues ignored by so many films, a gloom that is so pessimistic about those problems, the slight fun due to the eccentricity of everything and the frustration that does not do so does not. The spectators can also experience the premiere of constant stress and inductor of headache, not having a particular letter is in danger, but because almost all the characters are so ignorant and antagonists that it feels completely. So he has show in Beau is Afraid, Joker, You were Never Really Here and More, Phoenix is ​​a Master of Being Uncomfortable in His Own Skin, and the Querulous Sheriff He Play is Sympathetic, Even At His Most Wrong Theaded for Has A Has Has Has Has Has Has Has Has a You have a ha a you have a ha a has a ha a ha a you have shalling. Others.

It is not until Eddington is somewhere around half of the brand that really accelerates, when a murder transforms the film into a ridiculous crime thriller with echoes of the grass of the Coen brothers and noon and boring men, as well as the author of Paul Stomaske Thomasse, who starred Phoenix). Sheriff’s investigation does not conform comfortable with all the satire and tragicomedy they have gone before: Austin Butler cameo as a fresco demagogue of the new era could have been cut, and Stone has to do little to do. But tension and intrigue increase, and the result suddenly seems to import.

And then, just when you are attracted to the murder plot, Eddington takes another turn. Its low level strangeness jumps to surreal and bloody heights, and continues to rise until it reaches a pico of high adrenaline fun that leaves you staggering and breathless. Many spectators will have had enough of the movie much earlier, but there is something heroic about Aster’s uncompromising determination to follow their own path. It is also surprising that it has been done with such a deranged project, so your son after Beau was afraid. Eddington’s overloaded nature suggests that the United States conflicts in the 21st century were too long for him to process. But you have to deliver it for trying.