Director Jeff Baena reunites his regular repertory players for “Spin Me Round,” another droll ensemble comedy that, like his 2017 nunsploitation riff “The Little Hours,” becomes an opportunity for genre experimentation and a trip to Italy.
The beautiful, melancholic Amber , manager of the Bakersfield franchise, has been selected for the program by her boss , and her best friend is convinced she’ll find love on her dreamy adventure in an Italian villa with hunky Tuscan Grove honcho Nick Martucci . However, when Amber arrives in Italy, she is greeted by disappointments and red flags. Handing over her passport, she finds everyone is staying in a dumpy motel with doors that don’t lock and a creepy guide, Craig .
Nick’s sinister and sexy assistant Kat soon enters the scene, whisking each woman away for secretive rendezvous on Nick’s yacht in La Spezia and risky adventures in the streets of Lucca. The whole strange scenario screams “coven of witches,” and “human sacrifice ritual,” or, more realistically, “Eyes Wide Shut,” and fueled by jealousy and suspicion, Amber starts to pull the thread on the mystery in front of her.
She confronts Nick, accusing him of gaslighting and manipulating her, but as the story unravels in unexpected ways, Baena both subverts and fulfills the genre expectations he’s been pointing at, which is a rug pull and not at the same time. Truthfully, it’s a bit frustrating. Baena only lightly gestures at the genres he’s referencing, never fully commiting to the bit. “Spin Me Round” is engaging, thanks to the large cast of talented comedians, but it’s not really a parody, not quite an homage. It remains in indie comedy mode, meaning it never has to be earnest or pick a tone or deliver the splashy aesthetic excess of the genres that it indicates.
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