Movie

Black Bear

2020 · 106 min

A disorienting, slow-burn descent into creative obsession and emotional manipulation, blurring the line between performance and reality.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Tense, dark, satirical and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, identity, art, betrayal
Content: Strong language. Mild violence and sexual content. No gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
art
betrayal
madness
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex mild