Joker: Folie à Deux

Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as Arthur Fleck, this time facing off against Lady Gaga as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel. Their encounter in Arkham State Hospital sparks a dangerous symbiosis, where love and destruction intertwine. Gaga’s performance is at once vulnerable and manipulative, a flawless contrast to Phoenix’s fragile intensity.

Joker: Folie à Deux is part of Hildur's Movie Picks: four films selected by associate artist Hildur Guðnadóttir, screening at Eye. The other films are Joker, Tár, and Persona.

About Hildur Guðnadóttir

The 79th edition of the Holland Festival’s associate artist is Icelandic composer, musician and vocalist Hildur Guðnadóttir (Reykjavik, 1982). She is one of the leading, multifaceted composers of film scores, experimental pop and contemporary music working today. Her work, which is often intense, poetic, dark and unpolished, is inspired by a variety of sources from the founders of contemporary music, such as György Ligeti and Kaija Saariaho, to minimal music, ambient and noise. She has collaborated with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Knife and Animal Collective.

The general public know her work from films such as Joker (2019, also to be screened at Eye), for which she won an Oscar, Tàr (2022) or the HBO drama series Chernobyl (2019). This month, Hedda premiered at the Toronto film festival, the radical adaptation on Henrik Ibsen’s play with music by Guðnadóttir.