Brit Marling is a name that's starting to roll off the tongue. The Chicago-born triple threat (she writes, produces and acts) is about to hit the big screen this weekend with "Sound Of My Voice," a film bought by Fox Searchlight after it's premiere at Sundance in 2011.
Marling plays the mesmerizing leader of a cult in Los Angeles, but there's more to it than that. She claims to be from the future. What could be a snicker-worthy plot is instead a film both quiet and eerie, intense and intoxicating -- for Marling's power on screen is unlike many we see today. She is simply magnetic.
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