Martha Marcy May Marlene - Film trailer
Elizabeth Olsen stars in director Sean Durkin’s psychological thriller, Martha Marcy May Marlene, about a young woman who undergoes an explosive crisis of identity after escaping the confines of a rural cult-like farming community.
Trapped by unsettling flashes of memories from the past and visions of a perilous future, she becomes taken over by an unsettling sense of fear, leaving her consumed by paranoia and a mysterious burden of guilt.
The film, winner of the Best Director Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Prix de la Jeunesse, begins with Martha (Elizabeth Olsen in her feature film debut) running from an idyllic farmhouse into the woods of Upstate New York.
Terrified, and with nowhere to turn, she calls the estranged sister she hasn’t seen in years (Sarah Paulson), and suddenly finds herself in a lush, lakeside Connecticut summerhouse with Lucy and her new husband Ted (Hugh Dancy).
Yet, the beauty and comfort of Martha’s new surroundings clash with everything she is feeling as a secret fugitive from an unexplainable world, and so long away from society’s rules, she is unable to act in a way others find normal.
Martha Marcy May Marlene premieres at the London Film Festival on Friday, October 21, and is released in the UK next year (February 3, 2012).
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