Two Sundances ago Brit Marling mesmerized as the leader of a cult being infiltrated by two would-be documentarians in Zal Batmanglij's Sound Of My Voice; this year she returns to Park City as the infiltrator, playing a corporate operative who goes undercover within a volatile anti-capitalist eco-anarchist group in Batmanglij's sophomore feature, The East. Hit the jump for a peek at the tense first trailer and let Ellen Page's steely-pixie voice put you on edge.
The East just debuted in Park City to mixed-positive buzz, with some critics praising Batmanglij's yarn-spinning direction. Fox Searchlight has this pic and Park Chan-Wook's Stoker at Sundance (both produced by the late Tony Scott). As a fan of relative newcomer Marling I hope this one finds its footing, since Fox Searchlight is in the Brit Marling business but hasn't yet been able to make her critically praised films (Sound of My Voice, Another Earth) into bona fide indie hits.
That said, while The East packs more star power (Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsg�rd, Julia Ormond, Shiloh Fernandez, Patricia Clarkson, Toby Kebbell!) than Batmanglij and Marling's previous collaboration the behind-the-scenes story of its creation is more of a curiosity factor. The action-mystery spy pic, reportedly shot for $6.5 million, according to Batmanglij, "came into being through our personal frustration with rampant consumerism and all the contradictions of living in modern civilization."
Per Fox Searchlight, co-writers Batmanglij and Marling found inspiration for their thriller after going off the grid on a "freegan" walkabout one summer, hopping trains and sleeping on the street and dumpster diving for food:
?We had read about ?Buy Nothing Day? and tried it ? there was something liberating about not
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