Director: Todd Phillips

Cast: Zazie Beetz, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Ken Leung

Synopsis:

Joker: Folie À Deux finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that clowns are not funny, but Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is seriously not funny. In Joker, he went on a killing spree and became a figurehead of nihilistic fury. The film won the Golden Lion in Venice, as well as two Oscars, one for Joaquin Phoenix’s painfully, if not dangerously, rake-thin performance. Todd Phillips’s film also made buckets of money for its risk-taking studio, Warner Bros. 

The inevitable sequel picks up with Arthur in jail, heavily medicated and jovially bullied by the chief prison guard, played with whistling nonchalance by Brendan Gleeson. A patient in a neighbouring psychiatric ward, Harleen Quinzel (Lady Gaga), is obsessed with Joker. But Arthur’s lawyer (Catherine Keener) argues that Joker is a part of his split personality, basing his defence on this.

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