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Teaser for Ari Aster’s Cannes-Bound COVID Era ‘Eddington’ Looks at the Crumbling U.S. Political Landscape of 2020

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Last week, the Cannes Film Festival announced the lineup for its 78th edition where Eddington, the next film from Ari Aster (Midsommar, Hereditary, Beau is Afraid), was slotted for an in competition slot and today A24 has released the first teaser for the film.

Set at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in May 2020, in just one minute the teaser details Joaquin Phoenix as a conservative sheriff in Eddington, New Mexico, Pedro Pascal as his Democrat opponent, Austin Butler as would be proselytizer, Emma Stone as his denying wife and more.

Examining electoral conspiracies amid the first Trump presidency, the film looks at the rise of everything from the Black Lives Matter movement to ANTIFA to performative activism and the growing political and ideological divide in the U.S.

The film also stars Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau.

Eddington will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and will be in theaters from A24 on July 18.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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