US Edition‘Eddington’ unbound: Ari Aster talks Westerns, wounds and the technology frontier
EDDINGTON, NEW MEXICO, USA, JUL 15 – Ari Aster's film explores political and social tensions during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a small New Mexico town, highlighting polarization and community fractures amid protests and misinformation.
- On Friday, July 18, Eddington opens in the USA and Canada, launching with late afternoon to evening screenings, released by A24, as per the studio.
- Set in May 2020, Ari Aster began writing a COVID-19 political satire that pits a sheriff against his mayor over public health and protests.
- Against a backdrop of a massive solar project, Aster uses iPhones to mirror misinformation and fear, starring Phoenix, Pascal and Stone.
- Ari Aster said `That became the center of the culture wars...`, adding `If there's anything hopeful about the film,`.
- Aster intends to provoke self-reflection while offering a glimmer of hope for societal change, as audiences face polarized views and future societal reckonings.
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‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, once upon an early COVID time in the West
This is where we are, as the lawman says in “Eddington”: “We are in the center of it right now. We are in history.” This summer, in 2025, history can barely contain each new 24-hour blurt. It feels less like we’re in history and more like we’re choking on it. So we remember Shakespeare’s perfect three syllables to describe dark political machinations. “Out of joint,” Hamlet says of his country and his time. Like a dislocated shoulder. Ari Aster’…
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