Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

In Martha Marcy May Marlene, writer/director Sean Durkin adeptly doles out the narrative in two sets of sequences. A young woman, Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), is on the run from a group of other young people. She finally finds refuge at the lake house of her estranged older sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson), and brother-in-law, Ted (Hugh Dancy ) — her only remaining family. As Martha struggles to return to a more normal life, memories of her two years living as Marcy May in the cult led by charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes) surface and cause her to feel more alienated than ever. Read my review here.