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A sketch not featuring Chalamet, a mock commercial for “Oedipal Arrangements,” made the case for taking one’s relationship with their mother to, uh … the next level.

More striking are the Oedipal tensions that flare up between Clara and Andrew.

Most involve George Gershwin: Levant’s friend, benefactor and bête noire, dead 20 years yet still a kind of Oedipal rival.

Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”

Then again, if there is a point to “Beau Is Afraid,” I suppose it’s that parent-child relationships, particularly mother-son relationships, are so elemental, so Oedipal, that there can be no rational understanding thereof.