The Immigrant

— Marion Cotillard helps almost any film and this one’s pretty good anyway. The film has a feeling that it’s from another era, with its noble but down on her luck leading lady who must lose a part herself to survive and the man responsible for both her downfall and her salvation. It’s a carefully crafted film that develops more like a novel than a film and ends with as much a sense of resignation as of hope. I’m not really familiar with James Gray, the director, but this is his fifth film and it’s good enough to make me ready to check out one or more of the others.

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[2013. 120 min. Directed by James Gray. Starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jeremy Renner.]
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