The deceptively simple premise of a tense weekend in the woods with a small group of headstrong but emphatic characters gets mined for all its worth in this chamber piece from Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), and the results are paradoxically satisfying and inconclusive in Black Bear, a film that, when it’s working, plays out […]
Day: September 28, 2020
Violation – VIFF 2020 Review
Revenge movies have enormous popularity. We’ve all seen the victim get retribution against the evil stranger who lurks in the dark. But what is it like outside of the fantasy, when revenge is raw, and real, and against someone you might love? Violation aims to answer that question by placing us in the middle of […]