So, I guess we welcome Gillian Horvat s I Blame Society with open arms, and then maybe appreciate just what the cash-poor and idea-rich Horvat has done here. This is a film gone meta-within-meta, as Horvat, playing herself as a struggling film-maker, filming herself planning the perfect murder as a plot for a mockumentary and then committing . anything but. Horvat s journey, from frustrated writer/director, enduring meetings with exactly the type of vapid young male dude-bros we all secretly imagine do run large parts of Hollywood, to stalker and then – possibly – accidental killer of her own best friend, is traced out in a series of mostly hell-funny and oddly likeable vignettes.
Four new films to stream this weekend Black Bear, I Blame Society, Sisters with Transistors, House of Cardin
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BLACK BEAR ★★★★★
Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Paola Lázaro, Grantham Coleman. VOD, 104 min Plaza excels in this tricksy, surreal cringe comedy, which falls somewhere between Fawlty Towers and Mulholland Drive (and defies easy summary). Gadon and Abbott are the most unmissable actors around. But it’s Plaza’s turn in a script that demands she “..break down and give the best performance that anyone has ever seen ever” – yes, that’s the script direction – that pounces like the ursus of the title. Lawrence Michael Levine’s blisteringly original, provocative, often hilarious screenplay lurches between familiar tropes and jagged edges. It’ll keep you guessing.
I Blame Society: Terrific and messy movie-industry satire
Review: Gillian Wallace Horvat stars in a self-referential and sassy skewering of post-MeToo Hollywood
Film Title: I Blame Society
Director: Gillian Wallace Horvat
Genre: Horror
Is it mere coincidence that this broad, messy – and mostly terrific – movie-industry satire arrives to stream less than a week after Promising Young Woman? Nobody fresh from that all-conquering release will fail to register parallels when the protagonist here, after luring some irritating dope into her lair, reveals a stripe of vengeful bloodlust.
“Is that okay? Are you
scared of me?” Gillian Wallace Horvat (played by Gillian Wallace Horvat) says in the month’s signature tone.
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“I had a censored childhood, so my first truly disturbing horror experience happened embarrassingly late. I was well into my college years when I was forced to watch David Cronenberg’s
Videodrome [1983] for a class. I hated the film when I first saw it. I found the bizarre body horror irredeemably disturbing, and I couldn’t get the image of a pulsating VHS tape being inserted into James Woods’ gaping stomach out of my head. But I came crawling back a few months later and worked my way through all of Cronenberg’s ’80s/’90s canon. He’s truly a master of burning disgusting images onto your retinas for life – the exploding head in
Film-making a murderer: Gillian Wallace Horvat in I Blame Society
âIâve been trying to get a feature made since my short film Kiss Kiss Fingerbang won at South by Southwest in 2015,â says Wallace Horvat. âI would say maybe even before that, but not with many realistic expectations. I did think that after that win there was going to be more of a clear path. As in: âOh, she won at South by Southwest; maybe we should look at her stuff the way that we look at stuff from some guy that hasnât done anything yet.â I was surprised when things didnât quite happen that way.â