Now it’s time for “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn.”
It’s heartening to see a daring, unconventional indie filmmaker go from nothing to a director who quickly lands on the radar and finds talent that responds to their film. Take filmmaker Jim Hosking, he made a big splash with “The Greasy Strangler” at Sundance in 2016, a polarizing film that a lot of people actually didn’t like and many fell into “genuine provocateurs and many would-be shock purveyors” camp of cinema. But it was evidently striking enough to many, with our review describing it as “outré in any collection of audacious, boundary-busting films.”
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But Hosking has innate gifts for outrageous, fever-brained absurdity and he brings those sensibilities to “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn,” a boundary-pushing romantic comedy genre overlapping into the wild unknown of outsider art and attracting a lead star like Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recs“) in the process (our review).
In Hosking’s latest, “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn,” Plaza plays Lulu Danger whose unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only.”
The movie also stars Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson and Matt Berry.
Here’s the synopsis from Sundance:
After getting fired by her scheming husband Shane Danger (Emile Hirsch) from his cappuccino shop, dissatisfied Lulu Danger (Aubrey Plaza) is stunned when a TV commercial for “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn For One Magical Night Only” reveals a mysterious man from her past (Craig Robinson). When Shane and his bumbling cohorts steal the cashbox from Lulu’s adopted vegan brother Adjay, specialist Colin (Jemaine Clement) enters the fray to retrieve the stolen funds. But Lulu seizes the opportunity to run off in search of her mystery man—and events only become stranger from there.
It seems pretty out there and bizarre, but also, inventive and exciting. “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn” will be available in theaters, VOD and Digital HD on October 19. Watch the trailer below.