Finished watching Lake Bell‘s In A World.
This continues the sequence of woman written, often directed, and starred in films that I have watched over the last month.
The story is about a woman, well-duh, who, like her much more successful father, is in the “world of movie-trailer voiceovers”. If nothing else, I learned that there is a world of movie-trailer voiceovers (or at least there was a movie about them which in our modern world of if-it-is-on-the-screen-it-is-true is the same thing).
She finds herself in a competition with her father to do the voice over for a new quadrilogy (trilogy plus one). The voice over would start with the iconic phrase “In A World …”, and thus the name of the film.
I thought the film was nicely done, a funny satire, with some heartfelt moments. Perhaps since I have a daughter who studied acting, I am a bit of a sucker for films about films. Lake Bell is clearly talented as a writer, director and as the star of the film. B+ (rated R for language including some sexual references).