Thomas Flew

“It’s important to try and find the humanity in the people we abhor”: Ari Aster on Eddington

Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix’s conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal’s tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The director discusses the project’s origins and why he feels we’re living on the cusp of something new, alarming and deeply strange.