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Two Lovers is a 2008 American romantic drama film, taking its inspiration from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1848 short story "White Nights", which had already been turned into a film seven times, first by Luchino Visconti: Le Notti Bianche (1957). The film is directed by James Gray, and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw.
Mar 20, 2009 · Two Lovers: Directed by James Gray. With Joaquin Phoenix, Anne Joyce, Elliot Villar, Craig Walker. 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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- Drama, Romance
- James Gray
- 2009-03-20
Aug 2, 2023 · Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights. A single moment of bliss, however brief, is what keeps Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix), the main character in American director James Gray‘s fourth movie, Two Lovers, alive. A very small moment of fulfillment of a dream that would later be light years away.
Mar 20, 2024 · Ostensibly inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story White Nights, James Gray’s 2009 picture Two Lovers has an emotional current that is coursed through with this sentiment from Aragon’s...
Loosely based on Dostoevsky’s White Nights, this drama is built around a classic romantic triangle. What elevates it above the everyday is the vivid feel for character and vivid feeling for intimate drama shown by both the director-co-writer (working with Richard Menello) and the cast.
- Lynden Barber
His inspiration came from the Dostoevsky novella White Nights, about a man who begins a platonic friendship with a woman he meets in the street and then develops an obsession with her. After his previous collaboration with the actor Joaquin Phoenix, Gray wrote the part of Leonard with him in mind.
The other thing that makes Two Lovers a difficult project is the posthumous contribution of Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is because in addition to being a pioneering stylist, master of psychological detail, perspicacious analyst of ideology, and overall champion of what is known as “humanist art,” Dostoevsky was a vocal and enthusiastic anti-Semite.
