Directed by:
Zal Batmanglij (The East)
Written by:
Zal Batmanglij (The East) and Brit Marling (Another Earth)
Produced by:
Brit Marling (Another Earth, The East) and Nicholas Shumaker (We Are What We Are, Another Earth)
STARRING
Brit Marling (Another Earth, The East), Christopher Denham (Shutter Island, Argo) and Nicole Vicius (Half Nelson)
Aspiring journalist, Peter (DENHAM) and his girlfriend, Lorna (VICIUS) go undercover to investigate a mysterious cult led by the enigmatic Maggie (Marling). Maggie claims to be a traveler from the future on an important mission. Growing her food, obsessively sanitizing her chamber, giving her blood for transfusion – the cult’s members blindly follow her orders and protect her fervently. When Peter and Lorna smuggle hidden cameras into Maggie’s basement, bent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the members from her spell, they find Maggie’s presence hypnotic and difficult to escape. What follows is a delicately paced and riveting plunge into a psychological maelstrom of uncertainty and danger. Director Zal Batmanglij (Variety’s Ten Directors to Watch 2012) crafts a debut film that crackles with mesmerizing command of form, offering no easy answers in the elusive search for truth.
