Director: Todd Phillips
A courtroom, a chorus, and a man who can no longer tell where Arthur Fleck ends and Joker begins — "Joker: Folie à Deux" picks up its story inside Arkham State Hospital as Gotham prepares to put its most notorious inmate on trial.
What is Joker: Folie à Deux about?
Two years after the events that made him infamous, Arthur Fleck sits in a cell, thinner and quieter, waiting for a trial that will decide whether the man or the persona he created should answer for what happened. Inside Arkham's walls he meets a fellow patient whose fascination with his alter ego pulls him toward something he has never had: a partner who wants the Joker, not Arthur. Their bond unfolds largely through music, with fantasy sequences breaking from the grim procedural rhythm of legal hearings and psychiatric evaluations. As the trial proceeds, Gotham's press and public split into camps — some see a symptom of a broken city, others a symbol to rally behind. Arthur is left caught between the identity that gave him power over his own life for the first time and the fragile, uncertain self underneath it, with the film building toward a verdict that is less about the law than about which version of him will survive it.
Cast & crew
Joaquin Phoenix reprises the title role opposite Lady Gaga, with Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan and Harry Lawtey rounding out the courtroom and asylum ensemble under Todd Phillips' direction.
Context & significance
Released in 2024 as a direct sequel to the 2019 film that reframed a comic-book villain as a character study, this chapter shifts the setting almost entirely to Arkham and a Gotham courtroom, trading street-level chaos for confinement and testimony, and folding musical numbers into a story about performance, identity and what an audience does to the person it watches.
Where & how to watch
"Joker: Folie à Deux" is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, presented with a Farsi interface and both Persian dubbing and subtitles for viewers who want the film in their own language.