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Two Lovers
Directed by
James Gray
R
2008
1h 50m
Drama
,
Romance
7.0
81%
59%
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A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
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Cast of Two Lovers
Joaquin Phoenix
Leonard Kraditor
Gwyneth Paltrow
Michelle Rausch
Vinessa Shaw
Sandra Cohen
Isabella Rossellini
Ruth Kraditor
Moni Moshonov
Reuben Kraditor
Elias Koteas
Ronald Blatt
Bob Ari
Michael Cohen
David Ross
Waiter
Anne Joyce
Leonard's Ex-Fiancée
Elliot Villar
Bystander
Craig Walker
Bystander #2
Carmen M. Herlihy
Lady with Baby Carriage
Donald J. Hewitt Jr.
Another Bystander
Christian Albrizo
Some Kid
Julie Budd
Carol Cohen
Iain J. Bopp
David Cohen
Samantha Ivers
Stephanie
Jeanine Serralles
Dayna
Miguel Rivera
Antonio
Clinton C. Ingram
Bouncer
Doug Wright
Maitre d'
Shiran Nicholson
DJ Juice
Marion McCorry
Receptionist
Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Nurse
David Cale
Jeweler
Sy Fader
Old Man
Joel Horwitz
New Year's Eve Partygoer #1
John Baker
New Year's Eve Partygoer #2
Kathryn Gerhardt
New Year's Eve Partygoer #3
Luis Dalmasy Jr.
Background Break Dancer
Alex Felix
Background Break Dancer
Geronimo Frias
Background Break Dancer
Mari Koda
Background Break Dancer
Pedro Saint Morillo
Background Break Dancer
Anthony Ramos
Background Break Dancer
Diosmer Reynoso
Background Break Dancer
Edwige Sam
Background Break Dancer
Franco Bulaon
Man Kissing Girl
Renee Fishman
Ruth's Best Friend
Bianca Giancoli
Waitress
Nick Gillie
Livery Driver
Andrew Ginsburg
Rescue Worker
Brian Hopson
Club Patron
RJ Konner
Upscale Opera Guest
Evan Lewis
Uncle
Uzimann
Cab Driver
Mark Vincent
Ronald's Driver
Two Lovers Ratings & Reviews
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
What elevates Two Lovers beyond the mundane is the strength of the performances.
Fresh and Frowsy
Radheyan Simonpillai
The actors, all of whom deliver compelling, low-key performances, are mere particles bouncing off each other in Gray's vast spaces and the city that consumes them.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Joaquin Phoenix stars-and delivers his most self-scourging performance-in James Gray's taut and melancholy Brighton Beach romance.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
If Two Lovers winds up being Phoenix's last movie, at least it offers posterity incontrovertible proof that, once, he was a contender.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Despite its essential implausibility, Two Lovers lingers in your consciousness -- or loiters there, like Leonard standing on the street corner.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Instead of opting for a big dramatic setting he stays small, finding the tender truth within what could have seemed a cliché.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
If Phoenix does carry through on his threat to leave acting behind for good, he could hardly ask for a more tastefully executed, sweetly melancholy swan song.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Joaquin Phoenix and writer-director James Gray team up again for something on a smaller scale, and though the story is no less familiar the results are frequently affecting.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's one of the few movies I've seen recently that improves on a second viewing, in part because Phoenix does such remarkably subtle work.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
[A] compact, compassionate portrait of a man struggling to define himself and his own understanding of happiness.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Director Gray knows New York City like few other directors ever have.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
A wonderful character-driven drama about a man caught between what he has and what he wants.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Very little is explicit. The audience is left to infer much from spotty information, and yet a full and specific picture emerges. We are never in doubt of the truth of the characters and the absolute solidity of the world being depicted.
Dallas Morning News
Tom Maurstad
While Gray shares Leonard's love of photographing Brighton Beach street life and storefronts, and does so with great sensitivity and skill, this is such a worn-out cinematic setting that it has the effect of someone who's forever showing you baby photos.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
It's the sort of brooding turn that makes us mourn Phoenix's threatened retreat from acting.
The New Republic
Christopher Orr
[A] film full of simple scenes brimming with unspoken complications.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The remarkable intimacy Gray finds with his cast lifts the movie up as its quiet story unfolds, pulling us in and making the world smaller until nothing matters but these three.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A film of unusual perception, played at perfect pitch by Phoenix, Shaw, Paltrow and the other actors. It is calm and mature. It understands these characters. It doesn't juggle them for melodrama, but looks inside.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
However moody, Two Lovers didn't strike me as a downer, for the simple reason that it wells with sights and sounds that are guaranteed to lift, not sink, the spirits.
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