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You can take the girl out of the cult, but can you take the cult out of the girl?
In cinemas 2 February
The American indie toast of both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, Sean Durkin’s unnerving and insidiously offbeat horror-thriller exposes the sinister underside of religious cult deprogramming via an ingeniously suggestive and prickly performance from Elizabeth Olsen. It opens with a dishevelled and volatile Martha (Olsen) seeking refuge with her pedantic older sister (Paulson) and prig hubby (Dancy) in their sterile lakeside retreat. Formally (and, for that matter, atmospherically) we’re deep in Last Year at Marienbad country, as the film switches back and forth in time to offer a series of layered and increasingly uncomfortable reveals as to what questionable deeds our multi-monikered heroine has been up to for the last two years. This is a majorly impressive and rigorous nightmare movie.
Length: 101 minutes
Country of origin: USA
Year of production: 2011
Classification: Not Available
Date 02 Feb 2012-14 Mar 2012
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Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy
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