It’s official: Empire is afraid. Because when a new Ari Aster film drops, it not merely’barely tends to be excellent (just see his astonishing career-opening gambit of Hereditary, followed by Midsommar), but also somewhat existentially harrowing – a trip into the deepest, darkest depths of the soul. And while it seems his third film, Beau Is Afraid, isn’t exactly another straight-up scare-fest, it does resemble it’ll be another all-encompassing, head-scrambling cinematic concoction – a trippy, paranoid, otherworldly psychological odyssey that centres on Joaquin Phoenix’s central Beau. Watch the off-the-wall trailer here:###If you crossed Aster’s previous work with the reality-warping existentialism of Charlie Kaufman, or the hand-crafted maximalism of Daniels, it seems like you’d acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure something close to Beau Is Afraid – and yet, in true A24 style, we still don’t know really what this one is with regards to’concerning’with respect to , on a pure-plot level. What we do know is that we’ll see Phoenix in various stages of aged-up make-up, joined on screen by the likes of Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, Zoe Lister-Jones and Armen Nahapetian – with the cast list also set to include Parker Posey and Patti LuPone.###The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest question? When will we see it? American audiences will acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure their chance to bask in the unease of Aster’s latest vision when Beau Is Afraid hits cinemas in April – but whether UK audiences will possess’own’nurse a longer wait remains to be seen, with A24 titles often taking a token ificant amount of time to reach these shores. (Case in point: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On and Pearl are still yet to make their way to cinemas this side of the pond.) Here’s hoping the scariest thing with regards to’concerning’with respect to Beau Is Afraid won’t be how long we possess’own’nurse to wait in/with regard to’concerning’regarding it to release over here.