It’s an exciting thing to feel totally unseated by a film. So often we, as viewers, operate in cinema with an understanding of certain rules and expectations. We know the beats of a comedy and the weight of a drama. Tone and expectation is its own kind of comfort in film. Comfort that Black Bear ultimately is not interested in.
Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, and Sarah Gadon star in this strange and sobering film by writer and director Lawrence Michael Levine. In Black Bear, a filmmaker blurs the lines of reality and fiction in pursuit of their art. Desire, dishonesty, and cold calculation drive the filmmaker and the people brought into their orbit down a path of sacrifice and detriment.
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