Directed by:
Sean DurkinScreenplay:
Sean DurkinCinematography:
Jody Lee LipesCast:
Elizabeth Olsen, Hugh Dancy, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Christopher Abbott, Maria Dizzia, Louisa Krause, Julia Garner, Lauren Molina (more)VOD (2)
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE is a powerful psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a young woman rapidly unraveling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and brother-in-law (Hugh Dancy), Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth about her disappearance. When her memories trigger a chilling paranoia that her former cult could still be pursuing her, the line between Martha's reality and delusion begins to blur. (official distributor synopsis)
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I hate it when I have to give an average rating to an above-average film! But there’s not other way about it, MMMM simply didn’t deliver an above-average experience. It’s terribly slow, long and unsurprising, but at the same time, it’s very well made and performed, atmospheric and oppressive.
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To wake up and be sodomized by a rickety Bruce Springsteen, who will then write a beautiful hit about you? Some users would benefit from it, first in the ear and then in the eye. The disgusting, suffocating, schizoid debut of a man who can easily have as bright of a future as PTA, which I thought about a few times while watching this female existential horror. What Durkin does with the pre-camera space (we pseudo-intellectual nobodies call this mise-en-scène - a scene for misanthropes) I consider an unprecedented shot below the belt with the aim of dumping the viewer in the underexposed mud of agony, uncertainty and schizophrenia. I give it five stars because I like it when the movie ends and I feel like taking a brain shower. Because the world is just like that. More when I die. One of the movies of the year.
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