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  2. Sep 26, 2014 · Watch The Two Faces of January with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home.

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  3. Aug 28, 2014 · The Two Faces of January: Directed by Hossein Amini. With Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Daisy Bevan. A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

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    • Crime, Mystery, Romance
    • Hossein Amini
    • 2014-08-28
  4. Feb 5, 2015 · Beautiful Greek locales and three strong performances anchor “The Two Faces of January”, a smart and measured adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1964 novel. Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, and Kirsten Dunst star in this steady-moving thriller that doesn’t depend on big twists or reveals.

  5. The Two Faces of January is a gripping and highly watchable film which I would highly recommend. Set in the sixties, it is undeniably "old school" – a twisted tale of murder, treachery and double-dealing, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, where you half expect Alfred Hitchcock to appear in cameo at some point.

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    By Leigh Singer

    Posted: May 19, 2014 12:11 pm

    Unlike many acclaimed novelists, the movies have done pretty well by Patricia Highsmith. Following Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 adaptation of her debut thriller Strangers on a Train, Highsmith’s most infamous anti-hero, Tom Ripley, has schemed through several high-class screen outings - Plein Soleil (1960), The American Friend (1977) and the late Anthony Minghella’s excellent The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), the first film to truly showcase Matt Damon’s range as vulnerable, needy yet ruthless sociopath.

    There’s no Ripley in The Two Faces of January, one of Highsmith’s lesser-known books, but its mug looks mighty familiar. It’s another tale of duplicitous fraudsters playing perverted mind games that result in sudden bursts of desperate violence; flashy Americans with dirty little secrets swanning round Europe’s finest locations. Glamour is forgery. Seduction is treachery. The game is always rigged but somehow never lacking for willing players. "Debonair pair" Mortensen and Dunst.And so we’re introduced to debonair pair Chester and Colette MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst), happily soaking up sunshine by the Acropolis, when they catch the eye of small-time hustler and tour guide Rydal (Oscar Isaac). As a Greek-speaking fellow American, Rydal generously offers a private tour, confident he can skim a little extra off the top from such sophisticated yet seemingly naïve tourists.

    He gets way more than he bargained for. Chester’s actually a con man himself, swindling on a scale that dwarfs Rydal’s bazaar bakshish. But high stakes mean big risks; and when Chester - accidentally? - kills the US investigator who tracks him down, he and Colette must flee. Which is where a fixer like Rydal, who knows the locale, the lingo and, say, where to get new passports, can come in handy.

    But why would Rydal take such a risk? Purely for the money? Or, since he’s much closer in age and temperament than her husband to the winsome Colette, is there another motivation? And what of the master-and-apprentice rivalry between the two men? Who’s really conning who?

    A handsome, engrossing and classy, if not classic, throwback thriller. Not quite as complex – or ultimately cold-hearted - as author Highsmith’s Ripley tales but it’s an admirable debut for writer-director Hossein Amini with a standout cast, notably Viggo Mortensen and the talented Oscar Isaac.

  6. Sep 25, 2014 · The shivery, sexy suspense of a Hitchcock thriller is deliciously dished out in The Two Faces of January. Screenwriter Hossein Amini ( Drive ), in a potent directing debut, explores the...

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