Synopsis

Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a couple and documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling). Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie’s underworld.

Official Review

Sound Of My Voice will inevitably be compared to last year’s brilliant Martha Marcy May Marlene. The good news is that Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s film is almost equally brilliant in very different ways. While Sean Durkin’s 2011 masterpiece was concerned with the psychological repercussions of the cult experience, Batmanglij’s film is more interested in the mechanics of what we believe in and why we believe it. So even though both films are about about “cults” (to some extent), and they each contain moments of harrowing suspense, that’s pretty much where the comparisons end. …Read More