The lyrical intersection of two planets (Earth and its unexpected twin), two genres (the soaper and sci-film film), and two people. Both the soap and science are gently measured out, as Brit Marling (who also co-scripted) recovers from a tragic accident by helping her unintended victim (William Mapother). Her devoted …
Sarah (star and cowriter Brit Marling) is a rising star at a private espionage agency who gets assigned to infiltrate the titular domestic protest organization. The East does punishment-fits-the-crime work: flooding the home of an oil exec with the same crude that his company spilled all over a coastline, etc. …
Humanistic sci-fi from director Mike Cahill (Another Earth), insofar as it sympathizes with the human longings for both understanding and transcendent mystery. Ian (Michael Pitt) is a scientist seeking an orderly, elegant proof of the random mutations that eventually produced the human eye. Sofi (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) is a manic pixie …
"We're all niggers now," says bruised Georgia peach Augusta (Brit Marling), early on in Daniel Barber's (Harry Brown) rather literal take on Sherman's rape of the South. What she means is, when the menfolk are gone and the living's precarious, everybody's got to pitch in and do the dirty work, …
The pale, otherworldly beauty and charisma of Brit Marling give this wispy oddity a center, almost a soul. She is a mysterious cult leader “from the future,” with a secret agenda. Two amateur filmmakers want to expose her as a fraud, but they feel her power. Zal Batmanglij’s direction imposes …