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Two Lovers (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 30, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Magnolia
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix, Vinessa Shaw, Elias Koteas & Isabella Rossellini | |
Performer: | Bob Ari, Moni Moshonov, John Ortiz & Julie Budd | |
Directed by | James Gray | |
Screenwriting by | James Gray & Richard Menello | |
Produced by | Donna Gigliotti, Anthony Katagas & James Gray | |
Director of Photography: | Joaquin Baca-Asay | |
Executive Production by | Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner & Marc Butan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Kraditor's vacillating affections make up what could have been a frustratingly underpowered drama but for Gray's subtle, intelligent direction and Phoenix's raw performance.
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Times (UK)
Themes of loneliness, alienation and unrequited love are not new, but there is always that sense of the unexpected in Phoenix that keeps you curious....Phoenix is at his best with Paltrow's bruised sparrow of a girl...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/6 --
Gray's direction lovingly toys with images of containment and release, effectively playing out the drama in visual terms - but we never really feel it.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
Gray guides his strong cast to a resolution that is both surprising and entirely realistic.
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Toronto Star
Mopey, sallow, and nearly mute, Leonard seems a fatally broken man. But Phoenix, in a feat of acting that keeps revealing new layers, gives him mordant flashes of insight and sex appeal. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
TWO LOVERS is an involving, gently paced and well-cast drama about a tortured soul and his efforts at redemption....Joaquin Phoenix gives a superbly raw and excruciatingly vulnerable performance...
USA Today
[I]ts palette of emotions, like its rich and somber 35-millimeter cinematography, departs from the hand-held, hi-def, discursive style associated with directors like Joe Swanberg and Aaron Katz, harking back to an older, artistically more conservative film tradition of lush, earnest melodrama.
New York Times
Product Description:
James Gray, director of such hard-edged crime dramas as LITTLE ODESSA and THE YARDS, reveals the dark and unsettling complexities of love in his somber romantic drama, TWO LOVERS. Set against the gray winter backdrop of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, the story centers on Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix), a depressed and sometimes suicidal bachelor trying to pick up the pieces of his life after a bad breakup. Living with his parents and helping out at the family dry-cleaning business, Leonard finds himself in an existence that, save for his dabbling in black-and-white photography, is ordinary and stifling. His parents, mother Ruth (Isabella Rossellini) and father Reuben (Moni Moshonov), hope that a merger with a lucrative business--run by a friend of Reuben’s with a pretty daughter, Sandra (Vinessa Shaw)--will spark a budding romance in Leonard. But their plan hits a snag when Leonard befriends Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), an alluring but emotionally needy blonde who struggles with her own desire for validation from a married man with whom she is having an affair. Phoenix is brilliant as the brooding and complex Leonard, an anti-hero caught between filial obligation and a longing for escape, who sees in Michelle a partner for his troubled soul. While TWO LOVERS can come off at times a bit unadorned and overly low-key, its great strength lies in its power to simply and honestly convey the muddled and awkward realities of love--a feat that could not be matched by 1000 generic Hollywood rom-coms.
Product Description:
Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back into his childhood home following a recent breakup. He soon meets two women, Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Sandra (Vinessa Shaw) and becomes deeply infatuated with Michelle. However, mounting family pressure pushes him towards committing to Sandra. Leonard is left with making a difficult choice between love and heartbreak.
Keywords:
Romance
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Love Triangle
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Melodrama
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Theatrical Release
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Family Relations
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Affairs
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Love Triangles
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Romances
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Love
Product Info
- UPC: 876964001892
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