The One I Love (dir. Charlie McDowell).

Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss play a troubled married couple on an isolated weekend retreat in what is essentially a single location set film without any other actors to play off of (Ted Danson appears briefly). What follows is a bizarrely mind-bending yet illuminating metaphysical, dark comedy/drama with strong allusions to the works of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze (think Being John Malkovich). It speaks to the duo’s captivating performances that propel Justin Lader’s heady script to interesting places as things don’t appear as they seem.

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