Martha Marcy May Marlene

Still, I suspect Martha Marcy May Marlene will find its fans, because its mood of unrelenting tension carries an effectively creepy charge. Olsen plays Martha, a young woman who drops off the grid after her mother dies. For reasons we never quite grasp, she cuts off all contact with her previous life and settles into a communal existence at an upstate New York farm with a charismatic middle-aged spiritual leader, Patrick (John Hawkes), and his band of young followers. These include a harem of attractive women, a few men, and whatever babies their couplings produce. The ritual induction into this society consists in drinking a drugged herbal milkshake and waking up mid-rape, but this and other disturbing acts of violence get cloaked in a mantle of soothing metaphysical doublespeak: ?There is no such thing as being dead or alive,? a fellow harem member assures Martha, whom Patrick rechristens Marcy May. ?There?s only existing.? Without giving away too much of the game when it comes to Patrick?s far-ranging perversities, I?ll say this: I?m glad the cats in that one scene remained offscreen.

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