![]() With the film set for release in South Korea on July 5 – distributed by Studio DHL with buyer and co-distributor Sidus – Aster is doing the rounds in the country. The filmmaker added that working with cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, with whom he made his previous two features, helped in “the way I was working – I had a plan but was ready to throw it out.” “I found the experience of working with him to be so much fun and found I was able to pivot very easily and find new shots that would support the scene as blocked by him and me together. “I did the same thing I do with all my films, I shot-listed the entire film but just so I would have a movie in my head and went and worked through the blocking with him. ![]() “When I knew I would be working with Joaquin, I knew I wouldn’t be able to prescribe the blocking,” said Aster. In order to work with Phoenix, the famously meticulous director of Hereditary and Midsommar who usually shot-lists the entire film with blocking, dropped the idea of imposing blocking on him. He’s uniquely unwilling to keep moving forward on a path that doesn’t feel honest to him.” Because you don’t want your actor doing anything false. He’s an actor who can’t do anything false. “Once it starts to lose life, though, for him, he has to stop doing whatever that thing is and find a new way in. He does like to rehearse and he is able to do things that look totally spontaneous many times over. What I discovered was he is a very technical actor who does really figure things out long in advance. “I think what I was most surprised about was that his performances are so alive and he seems so present in his films that I thought maybe he’d need everything to be spontaneous and not want to rehearse or work through things. He likes to question things and investigate things.” “He is someone who likes to read over the script a lot, talking things through. It was really wonderful,” he said, after explaining they discovered they had similar senses of humour and attitudes towards work. “For me, it was the best experience I ever had working with an actor. The director said he had always had Phoenix in mind while writing the script but his recollection of the actor’s initial response to being approached to star in the film “was something like, ‘I just won the Oscar, why the fuck would I do this?’” The A24 film was released in the US in April. The film stars Phoenix as Beau, an anxious but mild-mannered man who sets off on a surreal and often horrific odyssey to attend his mother’s funeral. On his first trip to South Korea, Aster sat down with his mentor from the American Film Institute (AFI), Barry Sabath, who is also dean of Bifan’s Fantastic Film School (FFS) workshop, to talk about surrealist drama Beau Is Afraid. Ari Aster speaks to Barry Sabath at BIFAN Film FestivalĪt the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster gave a masterclass ahead of the film’s screening on opening night (June 29), in which he discussed working with actor Joaquin Phoenix and his affinity for Korean cinema.
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