1921. Una innocente donna immigrata viene ingannata in una vita di burlesque e vaudeville fino a quando un mago abbagliante cerca di salvarla e di riunirla con la sorella che è tenuta nei co... Leggi tutto1921. Una innocente donna immigrata viene ingannata in una vita di burlesque e vaudeville fino a quando un mago abbagliante cerca di salvarla e di riunirla con la sorella che è tenuta nei confini di Ellis Island.1921. Una innocente donna immigrata viene ingannata in una vita di burlesque e vaudeville fino a quando un mago abbagliante cerca di salvarla e di riunirla con la sorella che è tenuta nei confini di Ellis Island.
- Premi
- 15 vittorie e 30 candidature totali
- Rosie Hertz
- (as Yelena Solovey)
- Leo Straub
- (as Patrick O'Neill)
Recensioni in evidenza
Fleeing the brutalities of Trotsky's Red Army, Polish Ewa (Marion Cotillard) and her sickly sister arrive in New York cira 1920. When her sister is quarantined and both are threatened with deportation, Ewa is taken notice and saved by the faux-sensitive brothell pimp Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix) and blackmailed into prostitution. Just when Ewa may succumb to the sort of drab, bleak life that she was trying to allude, Bruno's cousin Orlando the Magician (Jeremy Renner) shows up and both men via their own quirky methods try to light a fire in the heart of the pretty foreigner.
In her best part since "Rust and Bone", Cotillard is Oscar worthy in a showy albeit poetic performance (made all the more impressive that she speaks Polish throughout most of it). Phoenix is superb as usual, as the repressed and impotent man who wants to think he's in charge. But Renner steals the show. Right when you think the movie is going to slide under the weight of the misery of its subject, his Orlando appears like a glowing gaslight of fun amongst the dim rooms and crowded corridors. Like his work in "American Hustle", its criminal that his spritely performance here will go unrewarded and under the radar.
Although the universal tale of Gray's film isn't exactly something we haven't seen before (from Kazan's bold "America, America" to Ron Howard's putrid "Far and Away") "The Immigrant" presents a rare and thoughtful experience, one in which we can learn something about the lives of long ago as well as our own.
I'm one of the harsher critics on IMDb, but I enjoyed The Immigrant. This is a dark film about Prohibition-era New York, and the trials of Eastern European immigrants who have come here in the hopes of a better life.
Like most good films, good and evil are blurred. We aren't asked to judge the characters, but rather to observe them as they are.
The plot is solid and the performances are impressive, particularly Marion Cotillard and Juaquin Phoenix.
Phoenix is always great in whatever he does, and he's the only actor whose character I felt and believed to be real in this film. Marion Cotillard is really sweet but, despite the role being written for her, the dramatic coloratura of the script, speaking in Polish, and shedding the perfect tear, her acting feels flat, as if she had taken a muscular relaxant during the film; unfortunately, I didn't think her acting was coming from the heart and it didn't touch mine. I found Jeremy Renner miscast in his role, he has no chemistry with Cotillard on camera and he was never meant to be a rival of the always powerful Phoenix.
The script has no tempo, unfortunately, so it dragged me alone on a two-hour flat ride. You know, the movie is really sad and emotional, but it rarely moved me, intrigued me, or kept me waiting for what was coming next. The movie felt, depending of the times, clichéd, phony, overly melodramatic, a bit frigid, but mostly unfocused and confused, and that's always the director's fault.
Overall, this is a nice film to watch, but it deflates before it gets fully inflated. There are many things I liked about this film, truly, but nothing I really loved, unfortunately.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizWhen Ewa shows the locket with a photo of her parents, it's actually James Gray's family photo.
- BlooperThe famous opera singer Enrico Caruso did sing at Ellis Island, but not in February 1921. Carusos's last performance was in late December 1920, after which his health deteriorated.
- Citazioni
[last lines]
Bruno Weiss: If you could lick my heart, you'd taste nothing but poison. See, you think there's goodness in everybody, but there isn't. So you go and you forget about me, and you forget about this place. And you forget about those things that I made you do! Because I took everything from you and I gave you nothing! Nothing. 'Cause I'm nothing.
[stumbles and falls]
Ewa Cybulska: [hugs him] You are not nothing.
- Curiosità sui creditiThe very, very last credit, after the logo for Wild Bunch, is "Keep Your Head." (with the period), appearing as if typed out with two fingers.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Huffpost Live: Marion Cotillard LIVE (2015)
- Colonne sonoreBuffalo Girls
Traditional
Performed by The Morrie Morrison Orchestra
Arranged by Morrie Morrison
Courtesy of Fervor Records Vintage Masters
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- Budget
- 16.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 2.025.328 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 44.064 USD
- 18 mag 2014
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 5.952.884 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore
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- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1