Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

Sarah invites her old friends, Abby and Lou, on a reunion trip to a remote island in Maine. There will be laughter, tears, and a boozy catharsis. It’s the sort of weekend that can transform the three into fully realized, grown-ass women. You already know this movie, right? Wrong.

Emotional release will come, but this is no weepy ballad of reconciliation. Working from a script by her husband, Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton returns to the Festival with a taut, satisfying thriller. As the danger rises, the gorgeous cinematography transforms the bucolic island into sinister and elemental terrain. Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, and director Aselton capitalize on the material and deliver remarkable performances, imbuing moments of unbearable suspense with raw emotion.

So go get your chick-flick jollies somewhere else! The women of Black Rock have to confront something far more dangerous—and heavily armed—than their feelings. - J.K.

Adele Romanski
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Black Rock is Katie Aselton's second feature as a director. It follows the critically acclaimed seriocomedy, The Freebie, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and starred Aselton alongside Dax Shepard. Her breakout acting role came at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in The Puffy Chair (by Mark and Jay Duplass). Aselton's other notable acting credits include roles in Jesse Peretz's comedy, Our (a.k.a.My) Idiot Brother, which screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and The League, currently in its third season on FX.