‘An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn’ Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Is At Her Weirdest In This Magical Rom-Com
The romantic-comedy has never been so absurd as it is inAn Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. But hey, when you haveAubrey PlazaandJermaine Clementin a movie together, what do you expect? Plaza is basically a real-life witch taken form, while I’m convinced thatWhat We Do in the Shadowsstar Clement is an actual vampire. Put the two of them together, and voila, you have one of the trippiest, freakiest romances put to the big screen.
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn Trailer
I can’t really make sense of the trailer forAn Evening With Beverly Luff Linn,which, for all intents and purposes, seems to be composed of kooky vignettes in which directorJim Hoskingjust pointed the camera at Plaza and Clement and told them, “Let loose.” I think there’s a plot involving some mysterious magician played byCraig Robinson, kidnapping, and guns. Also,Emile Hirschis here for some reason?
It’s as off-kilter as you would expect in a rom-com starring Aubrey Plaza, who has been making bold and out-of-the-box choices that perfectly suit her scary-hot persona since she wrappedParks and Recreation. And all the more power to her — it’s just left to us common folk to decipher what she’s doing and whether she’s actually an alien in a human body.
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linnpremiered at Sundance to mixed reception, with most critics, including /Film’s Ben Pearson, baffled by the film’s absurdity. But thankfully, it doesn’t cross the line into indecipherable, because “whileBeverly Luff Linnis off-kilter, it never crosses into what-the-hell-am-I-actually-watching territory,” Ben writes in hisreview. “The narrative is clear, the character motivations make sense, and it maintains a consistent internal logic throughout – in other words, while the film is undeniably wacky, it’s not so impenetrable that only hardcore fans of absurdist comedies will enjoy it.”
Here is the official synopsis forAn Evening With Beverly Luff Linn:
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 (Sam Dissanayake), 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. This is a story of love, theft, athletic swimming, and a magical magical event.
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linnhits theaters, On Demand and Digital HD onOctober 19, 2018.
