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Two Lovers

2008

James Gray

Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini ...

6.6

15,919

Romance. Drama Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sarah, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, direct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The whole movie is so well-cast and performed that we watch it unfolding without any particular awareness of acting (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper	"Thanks to Gray's confident direction and his insightful screenplay (co-written with Ric Menello), and the blistering performances from Paltrow and Phoenix, their relationship is one of the most authentic and memorable I've seen in recent years (...) please don't miss this film"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It can be argued that with 'Two Lovers' Mr. Gray has traded in one set of clichés for another. But perhaps because the conventions of romantic melodrama have lain dormant for so long, there is something fresh and vivid about the way he uses them here"s"
		Kyle Smith New York Post	"An aggressively boring film that gurgles with self-indulgence"

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