‘The Liberation’ Review: Carrie Coon, Lily James And Bella Ramsey Soar In Guy Nattiv’s Explosive Cult Thriller – Telluride Film Festival

The Liberation has the bones of every cult movie I have ever seen, yet somehow it feels apart, a completely different and, for this genre, surprisingly female-driven narrative that is at once edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller and achingly personal. That behind the scenes a man is at the heart of all of this, his own

Also starring Odessa Young and Tracy Letts, the film follows a suburban mother who leaves her family to follow a charismatic spiritual guru in 1980s New Jersey.

“You carry a lot of weight around, don’t you?” In Guy Nattiv’s observant, harrowing and unmistakably feminine “The Liberation,” this line marks the first time someone truly sees through fortysomething protagonist Rita Cooper. Based on Nattiv’s own grandmother (alongside various cult survivors) and played by Carrie Coon