Rated M, 107 minutes, in selected cinemas
Itâs been roughly a decade since the American indie thriller
Martha Marcy May Marlene
, about a young woman trapped in a cult, showed the world which of the Olsen sisters can act. Since then, weâve seen a good deal of that filmâs star Elizabeth Olsen, who can currently be found on the small screen in
WandaVision. But Sean Durkin, the filmâs Canadian writer-director, has been much less visible.
Carrie Coon and Jude Law star in The Nest.
The silver lining is that heâs had a good deal of time to mull things over. Durkinâs long-awaited second feature,
The Nest: Jude Law and Carrie Coon lead marriage drama of ambition, deceit and displacement
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This is Sean Durkin’s first feature after his debut, Martha Marcy May Marlene, which won him the directing award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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A ghost story without ghosts and a marriage story without a divorce, Sean Durkin s latest fractured-family drama, The Nest, is a tense psychological thriller driven by powerhouse performances from Carrie Coon, Jude Law and some very creepy slow zooms.
The long-awaited follow-up to Durkin s acclaimed debut Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), about a girl taken in by a cult, The Nest sees the American writer-director circling similarly haunted terrain: displacement, deception and a family in disarray.
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For one blissful month, it seemed like the defining moment of movie culture this year might be the most joyful one, too. Bong Joon Ho’s class warfare crowd-pleaser,
Parasite, had beat the odds, shattered precedent, and overcome an American aversion to subtitles to win the Oscar for Best Picture. What a thing it was to experience live a wonderful glitch in the simulation! Sadly, that night now feels miles away, a distant glimmer in the rearview mirror, a speck of light from the before times of ancient February. Just a few weeks after
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