One of the few actor/director couples in the US independent film scene, Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena were never keen to discuss their personal lives in detail, but their relationship informed the four enjoyably twisted movies they made together, beginning with the zombie comedy Life After Beth (2014).
Baena, who has taken his own life aged 47, was a shrewd and witty writer-director, while Plaza brought her witheringly sarcastic, cooler-than-thou persona, as well as jaded line readings and a heavy-lidded comic ennui, to the roles he wrote for her. Their films had an emotional depth beneath the deceptively arch or flippant surface.
