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Black Bear

2020

Lawrence Michael Levine

Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon, Christopher Abbott, Lindsay Burdge ...

6.2

577

Drama. Comedy A female filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A darkly playful deconstruction of the indie filmmaking process that digs into the artist-muse dynamic and the power structures in relationships (...) The entire cast dive gamely into the experiment"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"This adventurous seriocomedy has enough surprising elements and off-kilter humor to keep one intrigued, even if the payoff is debatable"	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Levine's uproarious deconstruction of modern culture and indie filmmaking defies classification (..:) The film grows both somehow more feverish and believable with each twist and turn"	POS
United States	David Canfield Entertainment Weekly	"Wholly unexpected, compellingly demanding, and utterly unique (...) You can’t take your eyes off it"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] dizzying but gripping comedy (...) Black Bear has something of Truffaut’s Day for Night, as well as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"Unique and unfazed, hilarious yet philosophical, “Black Bear” is the comedic form reinvented and re-conformed to mad and intoxicating ends"	POS
United Kingdom	David Hughes Empire	"Few films have explored and exposed the cost of channelling personal trauma into art as effectively (...) Levine has alchemised an unflinchingly honest psychological drama, anchored by a riveting Aubrey Plaza (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"This is a disturbing film, and much of it is unpleasant, but it's also very, very funny. (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"An arduous but rewarding watch, and you don't have to have sat on a dock in a red bathing suit and all that to appreciate its unusual angles on the art of making art"	NEU

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