Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid gets a trailer

Beau Is Afraid (previously called Disappointment Blvd.) is a new surrealist nightmare comedy from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommer). It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Kind.

An intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time. An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.

Beau Is Afraid was produced by A24 in the company’s third collaboration with Aster.

The film is due out in April 2023.