2020 · drama · thriller
Black Bear
Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine1h 46m2020
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.
Our read: Black Bear (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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