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[Satire] ‘Eddington’ Ignites an Already Politically-Charged Cannes Film Festival | News Channel 3-12
- The film Eddington, directed by Ari Aster and starring Joaquin Phoenix as a sheriff running for mayor, premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
- Aster created Eddington as a COVID-era Western reflecting 2020 America’s turmoil amid conspiracy theories, political extremism, and social conflicts.
- The story unfolds in an imagined town in New Mexico, centering on a local conflict that expands to include issues like mask mandates, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and broader national political divides.
- Eddington, lasting two-and-a-half hours, received a mixed and divisive reception at Cannes, with some praising its accuracy and others calling it tedious.
- The film’s July 2025 US release by A24 will test its impact as a politically ambitious satire skewering MAGA Republicans and elitist Democrats alike.
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Ari Aster on "Eddington": "Some People Join the Identity Political Movement to Be Part of the Tribe"
"Eddington" by Ari Aster is a dark Western comedy that plays during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Mexico. The director says: "The events of recent years have created a world that feels like a bad dream."
Cannes: Investigations Into Democracy and Its Lack of It, by Smuggler and by Farsa, on This and on the Other Side of the Atlantic
"Dossier 137", by Dominik Moll, and "Eddington", by Ari Aster, two films presented at the festival that from fiction go into the social and political age in a way that wins.
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…
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