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Martha Marcy May Marlene

2011 · 101 min

A quietly suffocating watch that keeps you uneasy, sliding between calm domestic spaces and buried memories until dread never quite lifts.

Tagline
You can get away, but you can never escape.
Overview
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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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • identity
  • obsession
  • family
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, thriller
Directed by
Sean Durkin
Written by
Sean Durkin
Starring
Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Louisa Krause, Christopher Abbott, Maria Dizzia
Music
Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
Cinematography
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Runtime
101 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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