If that sounds like a lot of controversy to pack into a single film, well, that’s Aster’s intent. If something even more sinister slips through the cracks, that’s also his intent. Aster sat down with The A.

When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: These people were too wholesome. They said devoted things to one another and sat down for dutiful family dinners.

Gia Coppola, Mark Ruffalo, Ari Aster and Brady Corbet Help Drive Audiences to Rome's Cinema in Piazza Screenings

Ari Aster’s "Eddington" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, but doesn’t really know what to do with them.

Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020. "'Eddington' has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody,

A sheriff, a mayor and a virus walk into a bar in Ari Aster’s bleak and brain-sick satire that stars a dueling Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

"Eddington," co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes and Micheal Ward, opens in theaters nationwide Friday, July 18.

Hereditary” and “Midsommar” director Ari Aster takes on contemporary America in “Eddington.” Joaquin Phoenix stars as a local sheriff in a fictional New Mexico town in May 2020, a time