Fact is fiction: Black Bear reviewed

Oct 03, 2021

∙ Paid

The crash limit of reality is where fiction begins.

This seems to be the thesis of Lawrence Michael Levine's latest film Black Bear, a twin-speed story about the challenges of film-making, when the dividing lines between writer, director and actor suddenly evaporate, rendering life captive to fiction and fiction a hostage to reality.

When a film gets shot…

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