Every day, AlloCiné recommends watching a movie (again) on TV. Tonight: Joaquin Phoenix at the heart of a love triangle.
After Little Odessa, Yards and The Night Belongs to Us, James Gray abandons mafia stories – his favorite subject at the heart of his previous films – in favor of a love story. The director is then inspired by White Nights, a story by Dostoyevsky about a man who develops platonic love and true obsession with a woman he meets on the street.
Screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Two Lovers stands out from conventional movie romances as it mixes passion with identity crisis. At the peak of his art, James Gray films love as an existential drama. Benefiting from a brilliant twilight (which we owe to cinematographer Joaquin Baca-Assay), the film exudes both sadness and the frenzied madness of passionate love. The cast all deliver intense performances, from Joaquin Phoenix to Gwyneth Paltrow through the enigmatic Elias Koteas and the sensual Vinessa Shaw.
Upon release in theaters, two lovers It enjoys great critical success in France, to the point where it finds itself in Cahiers du Cinéma’s year-end “tops”. It was also nominated for a César in the Best Foreign Film category.
two lovers By James Gray with Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw…
Tonight on Arte at 9 o’clock.
Source: allocine
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