The Immigrant (2013)

Directed by

James Gray

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 880 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Polish woman arrives in New York City in 1921 hoping for a fresh start. She gets entangled with a charismatic but manipulative man, and struggles to survive in a harsh new world.

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What happens

The Immigrant is a 2013 American period drama film directed by James Gray from a screenplay he co-wrote with Richard Menello, starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jeremy Renner. It follows a young Polish immigrant who arrives in New York City in 1921 looking for a better life after escaping post–World War I Poland. Shot in New York City between January and March 2012, the film struggled to have a theatrical release following Gray's refusal to change the film's ending to meet Harvey Weinstein's demands, who bought U.S. and UK distribution rights to the film three months after shooting had wrapped, and then threatened to release it direct-to-TV if Gray did not accept Weinstein's cut. The film–with Gray's original cut–had its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States by The Weinstein Company on May 16, 2014. The Immigrant received generally positive reviews from critics. Cotillard's performance was ranked by Time magazine as the fourth Best Movie Performance of 2014, and she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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