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  1. The Immigrant is a 2013 American drama film directed by James Gray, starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jeremy Renner. It had its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or. [3] The film received generally positive reviews from critics.

  2. May 23, 2014 · The Immigrant: Directed by James Gray. With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk. In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • James Gray
    • 2014-05-23
    • Black Girl (1966) Director: Ousmane Sembène. The first internationally released feature by a sub-Saharan filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène’s groundbreaking Black Girl is about Diouana (the magnetic Mbissine Thérèse Diop), who has travelled from Senegal to work for a rich white French couple in Antibes.
    • Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s widely adored update of Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama All That Heaven Allows (1955) charts the romance between widowed West German cleaner Emmi (Brigitte Mira) and soft-spoken Moroccan guest worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), who happens to be a few decades younger.
    • Pressure (1976) Director: Horace Ové. The first British feature by a black director, Pressure follows the teenage travails of London-born Tony (a hugely sympathetic Herbert Norville), who keeps getting rejected for clerical jobs despite being more than qualified.
    • Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Director: Paul Mazursky. From the silent misadventures of Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917) to Eddie Murphy’s bride-seeking African prince in Coming to America (1988), new arrivals to New York have provided some keenly observed culture-clash comedy.
  3. May 16, 2014 · The way they try to reach out to each other is the crux and main drama of "The Immigrant." The film’s period recreation of New York in 1921 is meticulously drawn in rich, dark colors and chiaroscuro displays of light and shadow. Gray is a very conscious filmmaker who lets no visual detail escape his attention, and sometimes that has the ...

  4. Synopsis. In 1921, Polish Catholic sisters Ewa (Marion Cotillard) and Magda (Angela Sarafyan) arrive at Ellis Island, New York City as immigrants looking for a better life after escaping their ravaged home in post-Great War Poland. Magda is quarantined because of her lung disease. Ewa is almost deported, but Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix), who is ...

  5. May 16, 2014 · Rated: 4.5/5 Sep 12, 2014 Full Review David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) Gray's beautiful, dark film is a reminder of the difficulties faced by immigrants in any place and at any time.

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    • History, Drama
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  7. May 24, 2013 · American filmmaker James Gray (‘The Yards’, ‘We Own The Night’) turns in his first period piece with this well-meaning but unpersuasive and fatally lifeless mel

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