At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.
Aubrey Plaza Jonathan Blitstein Julie Christeas Lawrence Michael Levine Richard J. Bosner Sophia Takal Marina Grasic Jai Khanna Jesy Odio
Черный медведь, Чёрный медведь, Μαύρη Αρκούδα, 心有猛兽, Czarny niedźwiedź, 블랙 베어, Černý medvěd, 心有猛獸, Fekete medve, דוב שחור, Черната мечка, Ursul negru, ブラック・ベア, Чорний ведмідь, Juodasis meškinas
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Sundance Film Festival
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Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
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Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Greece
Athens International Film Festival
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Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF)
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USAR
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clearly, intensely, MAJORLY influenced by cassavetes, which i had no idea about going in!! the story is split into two distinct parts, and the second half finds aubrey plaza going full Opening Night (plaza has previously talked about her love of both elaine may and cassavetes).
at its core, the film probes artists' relentless quest for authenticity, and posits two conflicting questions:
-if someone is manipulated into feeling and behaving in certain ways, are those feelings and behavior truly genuine?
-alternatively, is manipulation the best way to elicit genuine feeling and behavior? (example: kubrick manipulated tom cruise and nicole kidman so intensively during production of Eyes Wide Shut that they got divorced. at the same time, Eyes Wide Shut is…
“i’ve been lying since the second i got here”
i’m so fascinated with this, but right now that fascination is all i know for sure. this is layered in such a particular way that makes me feel in this moment like i’m missing something that’ll click into place naturally with time. i’m hoping that’s the case, because the potential is all there, i just have to think on it. and honestly, it’s good i need time to process because i can’t say much more without giving things away
but two little things before i click save: 1. go in knowing as little as you can, and 2. aubrey really is THAT good
aubrey plaza come collect your academy award it is yours it belongs to you!!!! the amount of anxiety this just caused me is unreal go in blind for a real fun time!!! i’m shaking
I bet her pussy smells like fucking spider shit!
is a line in this movie
Aubrey is great. That's it. That's my review.
These are the worst people I’ve ever met. I want to travel the world with them.
I would like to have the job of lighting aubrey plaza’s cigarettes... also I loved this
“You’re really hard to read...”
“Yeah, you know what, I get that all the time, but I actually think that I’m so easy to read that people just get confused and they make it harder on themselves.”
Black Bear is savagely primal. Aubrey Plaza’s performance is both captivating and horrifying. Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon delivery as well, but our lead is the lead for a reason. Plaza plays off the two of them in such an intense way that it leaves a visceral sense of dread in the best way possible.
A complexly webbed story that I couldn’t tear my eyes away from. It’s beautiful to look at. The sound design is at times haunting and others downright vicious.…
This is Aubrey Plaza's audition for the Shelley Duvall role in a movie about the making of The Shining.
Edit to add this is just meant to be a silly little joke. I don't subscribe to those wild tales.
