Ari Aster
With just four feature films, American filmmaker Ari Aster has established himself as one of the foremost voices of our phone-addicted, psychically damaged, paranoid generation. As his 2020-set neo-western Eddington comes out in cinemas this summer, Elena and Manuela—recording together in the rich soundscape of Elena’s garden—discuss the film (without any spoilers) in light of Aster’s previous work, and vice versa: from the perspective of Aster’s absurdist masterwork Beau Is Afraid (2023), the humour in his breakout horror hit Hereditary (2018) becomes much more apparent, while the director’s cut of Midsommar (2019) reveals a biting, darkly funny takedown of gaslighting and cowardice in relationships, and in all of human behaviour.
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