Ari Aster, director of 'Eddington': 'Nobody agrees on what's real anymore'

For Ari Aster, it's no longer time to relax. After being noticed by a hard-hitting horror double ( Hereditary , 2018; Midsommar , 2019), the 39-year-old prodigy then expanded his scope. With Eddington , he depicts the disintegration of a small New Mexico town during the Covid-19 era, with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of a poor sheriff consumed by paranoia. Met at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where he came to defend this dark and grating pamphlet, in tune with the American hangover, Ari Aster does not hide his circumspection in the face of the round of interviews. If he lends himself to them, it is with great restlessness, with scathing words.

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