US Edition[Satire] ‘Eddington’ Ignites an Already Politically-Charged Cannes Film Festival | News Channel 3-12
- Ari Aster's COVID-era Western, Eddington, which follows a confused sheriff running for mayor in an imagined New Mexico locale, debuted to mixed reviews at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
- Eddington portrays a 2020 America unraveling through conspiracy theories, political extremism, and nationwide events like mask mandates and George Floyd's death.
- Joaquin Phoenix stars as Joe Cross, a confused sheriff running for mayor against the current mayor played by Pedro Pascal, with increasing social tensions driving a violent climax.
- The film, lasting two-and-a-half hours, uses dark satire targeting both MAGA Republicans and elitist Democrats, with critics divided between praise for its accuracy and criticism as tedious.
- Eddington’s divisive reception at Cannes reflected its political ambition and complex portrayal of America’s pandemic-era psyche, with Aster expressing both pride and uncertainty about the film’s impact.
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‘Eddington’ ignites an already politically-charged Cannes Film Festival
By Thomas Page, CNN Cannes, France (CNN) — Ari Aster is currently living in a state of blissful ignorance. It won’t last long. The director of “Midsommar” and “Beau Is Afraid,” who has brought his politically volatile work “Eddington” to the Cannes Film Festival, admits he hasn’t seen any of the online reactions to his movie. “I’ve been very deliberately avoiding the discourse about the film,” he told CNN during a packed and often impassioned pr…
‘Eddington’ ignites an already politically-charged Cannes Film Festival | News Channel 3-12
By Thomas Page, CNN Cannes, France (CNN) — Ari Aster is currently living in a state of blissful ignorance. It won’t last long. The director of “Midsommar” and “Beau Is Afraid,” who has brought his politically volatile work “Eddington” to the Cannes Film Festival, admits he hasn’t seen any of the online reactions to his movie. “I’ve been very deliberately avoiding the discourse about the film,” he told CNN during a packed and often impassioned pr…
Cannes 2025. Eddington Is a Neo-Western with Joaquin Phoenix From the Author of Solstice. All Tags Are in Place: BLM, Anti-Vaxers, Trumpism. But the Statement Did Not Work
The Cannes Film Festival showed “Eddington”, a new film by Ari Astaire, the author of “The Solstice”, one of the most famous and unusual modern horror films. This time, the director tried to create a modern Western that would work with archetypes of American culture and at the same time understand the complex reality of today (the plot of the film, for example, is related to the covid pandemic). Anton Dolin believes that Aster failed in his ambi…
'Eddington' Director Ari Aster Says He Feels Bad About America: 'We Are on a Dangerous Road'
It’s no surprise that “Eddington,” the provocative new film from writer and director Ari Aster, has brought about a wide range of varied reactions following its Friday night premiere in Cannes, because the director says that the film itself is about the different realities we are living in and how far apart people are even when living right next to each other. “We are on a dangerous road and an experiment that has gone wrong,” Aster said of cur…
Eddington review: Ari Aster's latest is thematically rich but overlong
The last time Joaquin Phoenix and director Ari Aster worked together, it was for 2023’s incendiary Beau is Afraid, a primal psychodrama about a man with a mother fixation. Veering towards the extreme, it wasn’t for all tastes, but then that’s the world that Aster operates in. His first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, similarly re-worked the horror movie in his own image, creating two utterly unforgettable experiences.His latest feature Eddi…
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