Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster mistakes amplitude for creative insight, inflating a slender conceit about childhood trauma into a three-hour pageant of middle-aged humiliation.
Surrealism
Last Year at Marienbad
It explores the mnemonic tendencies of the human mind, our idiosyncratic mix-ups of random facts and details, the way our memories often replay out of order, repeat themselves, and morph into falsity over time.