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Film Description:

VICTORIA PREMIERE!

Lawrence Michael Levine is another American indie success story making a big leap forward at Sundance this year. He’s working in an exhilarating new register with Black Bear, a tricky psychosexual three-hander that studies the conflicts that simmer to a boil at a lake house in Upstate New York. Said secluded cabin is where DIY filmmaker Allison (Aubrey Plaza) decamps for a writers’ retreat, hoping to push past her creative block. But the place belongs to a couple, musician Gabe (Christopher Abbott) and his pregnant girlfriend Blair (Sarah Gadon), transparently going through some things. For a while, Black Bear just feeds off the competing energies and increasingly antagonistic rapport of its characters, whose loaded interactions gradually reveal fault lines in the relationships and falsehoods in how these frazzled creatives present themselves. It’s often scathingly funny—a dark comic millennial spin on the Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? template, buoyed by three expertly modulated performances and acidic bon mots.

What’s most recommendable, though, about this twisty meta gabfest is Plaza’s lead performance, the most volatile and nuanced work of her career; what starts as almost a commentary on her sardonic star persona deepens into something more volcanic and real, even as the one-time sitcom star casts the authenticity of the emotions under fresh suspicion.

“It's a film that doesn't just reinvent itself so much as deconstruct its entire existence in a way that's breathtaking and wildly entertaining.”—RogerEbert.com

“You can't take your eyes off it.”—Entertainment Weekly

CAST Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon, Christopher Abbott