‘Ingrid Goes West’ Sundance Review: Aubrey Plaza Is a Social-Media Stalker to Relish
On screen at Sundance, though, Matt Spicer’s “Ingrid Goes West” pulled off that tricky balancing act with style, drawing a rapturous reception in its world premiere at the Library Theatre on Friday night.
“Ingrid Goes West” is part black comedy, part psychological melodrama and part examination of the perils of social media, and it’s a lot of other things to boot.
Given what we already know about Ingrid, this shouldn’t be fodder for humor, but the world of social-media climbers is so ripe for satire that Spicer manages to get in shots that amuse but also sting.
Olsen is terrific as the young star who projects an idealized life one Instagram pic at a time, not realizing how seriously some people may take all that carefully-crafted fantasy.
In a Q&A that followed the premiere, Spicer said, “The film was kind of our way of working out our complex feelings about social media.”