Sean Durkin’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2011 feature “Martha Marcy May Marlene” premiered at Sundance in January to, mostly, positive reviews. And yet, nobody bought it for distribution, I figured that would probably happen at Cannes where I was told it would be part of the Un Certain regard selection.
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This absolutely matters. That room was practically all Oscar voters. Fact remains, “Michael” was always going to contend for a best picture nomination, you just had to set your biases aside.