- An escaped cult member experiences paranoia and isolation while attempting to start a new life with her sister's family. Try as Martha might to blend into her new upper-middle-class surroundings, she can't help but be haunted by nightmares of the time she spent under the control of a malevolent cult leader, or the fear that the group is watching her every move and awaiting the perfect moment to take their revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Disc #1 -- Martha Marcy May Marlene
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Audio: Español 2.0 Dolby Surround
Audio: Français 2.0 Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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Disc #1 -- Martha Marcy May Marlene
1. Chapter 1 [5:29]
2. Chapter 2 [4:00]
3. Chapter 3 [3:53]
4. Chapter 4 [3:53]
5. Chapter 5 [4:52]
6. Chapter 6 [4:27]
7. Chapter 7 [3:14]
8. Chapter 8 [2:55]
9. Chapter 9 [3:54]
10. Chapter 10 [6:12]
11. Chapter 11 [6:11]
12. Chapter 12 [4:02]
13. Chapter 13 [5:34]
14. Chapter 14 [1:59]
15. Chapter 15 [3:49]
16. Chapter 16 [2:59]
17. Chapter 17 [3:47]
18. Chapter 18 [:44]
19. Chapter 19 [4:54]
20. Chapter 20 [4:04]
21. Chapter 21 [4:28]
22. Chapter 22 [1:46]
23. Chapter 23 [5:33]
24. Chapter 24 [4:04]
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Directors
T. Sean Durkin
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Producers
Chris Maybach
Antonio Campos
Josh Mond
Patrick Cunningham
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Composers (Music Score)
Saunder Jurriaans
Danny Bensi
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Co-Producers
Andrew Corkin
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Editors
Zac Stuart-Pontier
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Screen Writers
T. Sean Durkin
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Others
Art Director - Jonathan Guggenheim
Assistant Costume Designer - Blake Glover
Assistant Costume Designer - Leslie Paddoll
Assistant Editor - Misako Shimizu
Assistant Editor - Dean C. Marcial
Associate Producer - Brett Potter
Casting - Susan Shopmaker
Casting - Randi Glass
Cinematographer - Jody Lee Lipes
Composer (Music Score) - Saunder Jurriaans
Composer (Music Score) - Danny Bensi
Costume Designer - David Tabbert
Executive Producer - Ted Hope
Executive Producer - Matt Palmieri
Executive Producer - Alexander Schepsman
Executive Producer - Saemi Kim
Executive Producer - Saerom Kim
First Assistant Director - Tomas Deckaj
Key Make-up - Jessica Kelleher
Line Producer - Melody Roscher
Location Manager - Grant Curatola
Post Production Supervisor - Susan Lazarus
Production Coordinator - Amy Crowdis
Production Designer - Chad Keith
Production Sound Mixer - Micah Bloomberg
Properties Master - Shawn Annabel
Re-Recording Mixer - Coll Anderson
Script Supervisor - Zorinah Juan
Second Assistant Director - Anne Marie Dentici
Second Assistant Director - Ramona Adair
Sound Effects Editor - Matt Snedecor
Sound/Sound Designer - Coll Anderson
Stunts Coordinator - Tony Vincent
Supervising Sound Editor - Coll Anderson
Unit Production Manager - Garrett Fennelly
Deliberate in pace and haunting in nature,
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a dreamlike character study of a former cultist's reintroduction to society and her attempts to understand her place in the world.
Elizabeth Olsen gives a stunning performance in the lead role -- no small feat given that the film frequently moves from the present day to flashbacks and back again. At the helm, first-time filmmaker
T. Sean Durkin commands the proceedings with a calculation that continues to impress long after the credits roll. Dread lies in the pores of each frame, promising that no good will come out of the situation.
The film opens with shots of a seemingly normal farm. The first glimpse that something is amiss in this setting is a dinner scene where the men of the house eat before the women, all of whom dine in silence afterwards.
Durkin then cuts to the morning, as viewers witness Martha (
Olsen) fleeing from the compound to the nearest town, where she's caught at a diner by one of her fellow farmhands. Though she is allowed to leave, the past is never too far behind her, as she finds out when she moves into a summer lake house with her sister Lucy (
Sarah Paulson) and her husband (
Hugh Dancy). Long out of touch, the siblings find it difficult to talk about where Martha has been for last two years -- the memories of which begin to tear Martha apart as her grasp on reality breaks down, cuing the audience in on what was going on at that farm one flashback at a time.
Apart from the similar tense aesthetic the film shares with the previous year's
Winter's Bone, the two pictures also feature
John Hawkes in two very different, yet subtly sinister performances. Though not quite as striking as his Oscar-nominated performance in
Bone, the actor does a fine job at portraying an intimidating force that plagues Martha in the past and the present. As admirable as
Hawkes is, the picture belongs to
Olsen, who's in nearly every frame of the movie. There's a shell-shocked quality to her in the present, while the flashbacks present a lonely, vulnerable side of the character that both she and the audience have a hard time shaking when those scenes end.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a fascinating triumph of indie filmmaking and a smashing debut for
Olsen that simply cannot be ignored. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
- Elizabeth Olsen : Best Actress - Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2011
- Elizabeth Olsen : Best Female Lead - Independent Spirit Awards, 2011
- T. Sean Durkin : Best First Feature - Independent Spirit Awards, 2011
- John Hawkes : Best Supporting Male - Independent Spirit Awards, 2011
- Josh Mond : Producers Award - Independent Spirit Awards, 2011
- T. Sean Durkin : New Generation Award - L.A. Film Critics Association, 2011
- T. Sean Durkin : Best New Filmmaker - Boston Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Antonio Campos : New Generation Award - L.A. Film Critics Association, 2011
- Josh Mond : New Generation Award - L.A. Film Critics Association, 2011
- Elizabeth Olsen : New Generation Award - L.A. Film Critics Association, 2011
- Elizabeth Olsen : Breakthrough Performance - Detroit Film Critics Society, 2011
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