Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling made a splash at Sundance last year with their cult drama/thriller The Sound of My Voice, and the two who re teamed this year for another infiltration film about a different type of group, Anarchists. Their latest effort, titled The East, stars features a cast of well known start this time such as Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Brit Marling and Patricia Clarkson.
The film just premiered at Sundance to mostly positive reviews and I’m sure we’ll hear more about it in the coming months, especially since Fox Searchlight will be releasing the film at some point this year. Below you’ll find the trailer which features menacing voice over from Ellen Page, star of Juno and Hard Candy, and a lot of quick cuts that seems very representative of the anarchic culture. Check it out and let us know what you think, I know it left me curious about the film.
In THE EAST, Sarah Moss (Marling) is a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Living amongst them in an effort to get closer to their members, Sarah finds herself unexpectedly torn between two worlds as she starts to fall in love with the group’s charismatic leader, finding her life and her priorities irrevocably changed.
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