Martha Marcy May
Marlene (2011)
Directed by Sean
Durkin this film stars Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson
and Hugh Dancy. A young woman struggles to overcome her time living
with a cult while she stays with her sister.
This is a real slow
burner of a film which has a great ambiguous ending but these
strengths are also the weaknesses of the film. The plot is a bit on
the thin side, not showing us how the protagonist joined the cult is
an error in my opinion, but it does provide an interesting character
study. Elizabeth Olsen gives a good haunted performance in the lead
but I was always left wanting more detail from the story which relies
a little too much on not telling.
4/5
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