With “Eddington”, Ari Aster films a black and cynical fable on an implosion America

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While American cinema seemed to have lost its critical capacity on the way. In addition, here is that Asster plunges into the heart of the flaw, the tear, namely the secession returned to hover on the white-headed eagle (symbol of the United States). Nevertheless, Spotted in the ranks of “eddington”, ari aster films black a new horrific wave (Heredityin 2018. Therefore, then Midsummerin 2019), the gifted 39-year-old, foal of the company A24, at the forefront of select independence, wakes up a skepticism with his fourth feature from the new Hollywood of the 1970s.

With EddingtonASTER continues the out of the genre bench Beau Is Afraid (2023). towards a psychiatric fable of a great darkness, imagined in full maceration of the COVVI-19. At the cost of a satire spanning no one. he sticks to something of contemporary nihilism, whose grotesque and enormity bite today on the appalling Trumpist circus.

Eddington is a small town of New Mexico, whose camera caresses the municipal panel from the start. In this month of May 2020, the health measures completed a social pact and a civil harmony already well underway. Among the fractures that are widening. the main opposes sheriff, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), guardian “eddington”, ari aster films black of the order without scope, rective asthmatic at the port of the mask, to the mayor, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), Liberal good complexion broken to COM and circles of influence. As the elections approaches. the first launched in campaign against the second, and his project to build a Data Center Rapace – the shock of the big patriot common sense against the disconnected political elite.

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