Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011 123movies

Watch: Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories of her past keep resurfacing, she may need more help than anyone is able to give her..
Plot: After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult’s manipulative leader.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 53,583
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 635 Popularity: 16.068 | TMDB

Reviews:

What’s wrong with you?
Greetings again from the darkness. This one has been on my radar since the Sundance Festival and all the raves about Elizabeth Olsen’s performance. After attending a screening last evening, I find myself at a loss to adequately describe not just her stunning turn, but also this unusual film from writer/director Sean Durkin.

On the surface, this sounds like just another movie peeking inside a creepy cult that brainwashes, and psychologically and physically abuses women, and is led by a charismatic (and creepy) religious style figure-head. There are many similarities to the Manson-family story of which much has been published, but Mr. Durkin takes the film in a much different and very creative direction by concentrating on what happens to Martha (Olsen) after she escapes the cult.

In the Q&A, Durkin states he did much research and found the most fascinating story to be that of a cult escapee and what she went through during her first three weeks of freedom. Martha sneaks out early one morning and places a panic call to her older sister, whom she hasn’t communicated with in two years. Settling in to the lake house with big sis and new brother-in-law, it becomes quite obvious that Martha doesn’t know how to fit in society and has absolutely no interest in discussing her recent past.

The sister is played very well by Sarah Paulson, and her husband is Hugh Dancy (so very good in Adam). This seemingly normal yuppie couple is trying to do right by Martha, but the fits of paranoia, outbursts of anger, and societal goofs are just too much for them.

The genius of this film is in the story telling. The cinematic toggling between today and moments of time at the cult farm house leads the viewer right into the confused mind of Martha. We don’t get much back story but it’s obvious she was “ripe” for cult world when she was chosen. We see how Patrick, the quietly charismatic leader, sings her a song and steals her heart … she wants so much to belong. We also see how she bonds with the other women at the farm house, and ends up in a situation that seems to snap her out just enough so she finds the strength to leave. The editing of scenes between these two worlds in outstanding and serve to keep the viewer glued to the screen.

Last year I raved about an independent film called Winter’s Bone. I chose it as one of the year’s best and it ended with some industry award recognition. I am not willing to say this film is quite at that level, but I will say that the younger sister of the Olsen twins, Elizabeth, delivers an incredible first feature film performance and Sean Durkin deserves an audience for his first feature film as writer/director. Another bond between the two indies is that John Hawkes plays the cult leader Patrick, and Hawkes was a standout in Winter’s Bone.

There will undoubtedly be some debate about whether this is cutting edge independent filmmaking or just another snooty art-house mind-messer. All I can say is, I hope the film grabs enough audience for the debate to matter … it deserves it.

Socialisation and de-socialisation
‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ is a powerful drama about a young woman who flees a cult-ish community under the domain of a charismatic, abusive alpha male. She takes refuse with her estranged sister: but the latter is wealthy, a control-freak, determined to make the world around her fit her perfect image, whereas her new house guest is paranoid, nervous, provocative and highly de-socialised. The strength of the film is that in many ways, the host is not a particularly likable person, but nonetheless, the film forces you to see her point of view: that her sister is not someone she can care for in the abstract, but neither bear to be around nor actually help. The movie is not wildly unorthodox but it quite skilfully implies the disquiet and distorted perspective of its primary protagonist without forsaking either subtlety or the capacity to induce sympathy, right up to the disturbingly ambiguous final scene.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min), 1 hr 51 min (111 min) (workprint) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 3538446
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Sean Durkin
Writer Sean Durkin
Actors Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes
Country United States
Awards 22 wins & 74 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, SDDS, Datasat
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate) (laboratory and dailies services) (as Technicolor New York)
Film Length 2,793 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Fuji Eterna-CP 3514DI), D-Cinema