Black Bear (2020)

Here's another one that did not move me nor Jack. In the first part, Aubrey Plaza plays a filmmaker who has just arrived at a bickering couple's lake house to find inspiration. But roles change in the second and final act. Plaza's acting is good (we like her a lot), as is Christopher Abbott's and Sarah Gadon's as the couple. 

Lawrence Michael Levine writes and directs, and was nominated for the Sundance NEXT Innovator Award for this project. Apparently he said the movie is based on his dreams. We have to be careful with whom we share our dreams, because most people just do not care.

Giulio Carmassi & Bryan Scary's soundtrack can be streamed on Apple Music, if you care.

If you watch this, you may want to know that "room tone" is a recording that is needed for editing a movie. Everyone must be still and quiet while the sound person makes the recording, usually after shooting a scene.

Plaza was last blogged for Happiest Season and Gadon for Indignation. Abbott has dozens of credits, including Martha May Marcy Marlene, A Most Violent Year, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and thirteen episodes of Girls. Levine directed three other features before this, two of them under the name Lawrence Levine, and got some nominations and a couple of wins for this and the one before.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics can bear this, with an average of 90%, but its critics are in the woods with us at 61%. We watched it on Netflix May 11.