Sarah Gadon also leads this subversive dark comedy about a filmmaker blurring the lines between art and life, which premiered at Sundance.

Since bringing her signature deadpan sizzle to turns in `Ingrid Goes West,` `The Little Hours,` and `Safety Not Guaranteed,` Aubrey Plaza has succeeded in becoming a one-woman mini-genre unto herself. Because of her discerning choices of roles, her name indicates something about the tone, quality, and artistic ambitions of the films to which she lends her talents.

From the intriguing new trailer for `Black Bear,` which premiered in the forward-looking NEXT section of this year's Sundance Film Festival, it looks as if Plaza has done it yet again.



Describing the film as `an intriguing and unexpected comedic thriller,` the official synopsis goes on to explain: `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 convoluted their lives will soon become in the filmmaker's pursuit of a work of art, which blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.`